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Train Dirty, Recover Reliably: A Controlled Study of Data-Efficient Recovery Tuning for Tool Agents

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This paper studies a focused question: whether a small amount of targeted supervision can improve a tool agent’s choice of immediate recovery actions under controlled failures, and introduces Mini Recovery Tuning, a deterministic benchmark and training protocol for evaluating this question.

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