PaperLens
紙
Students
Professional
JA
EN
◐
Sign in with Google
Sign in
Read
Home
Close reading
New
Textbook
Go deeper
Learn
Lab
Landscape
Contributors
Glossary
You
Search
All-access
My Page
#trajectory
1 articles
01
2026-08-29
·
Distillation & Compression
·
★ MEMBER
·
PAPER
·
10 min read
Distilling Agents — How to Compress a Long Trajectory
When you distill an agent, the unit of learning changes from a single question-and-answer to an entire game. Tens of thousands of tokens come back with one bit of grading. This article works through how that gap is bridged — turn-level credit assignment, trajectory filtering and on-policy correction, and the inheritance of tool use — and maps the recent long-horizon agent literature onto those three axes.