Counterfactual Debugging pinpoints sim2real failures via causal attribution at 1M steps
MichaelD1729 · x · 2026-09-03
World-model-trained agents often fail in deployment, and identifying the real sim2real gap is hard. The authors propose Counterfactual Debugging, which pinpoints failure causes via causal attribution at 1M steps. Details in an 8-tweet thread.
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