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TRACE: Training Reasoning Agents for Causal Exploration with Synthesized Rewards

The mechanism is clever: use simulation to generate oracle rewards for reasoning tasks where real verification is expensive or ambiguous. If you're building diagnostic or causal reasoning agents, this shows how to bootstrap training data with synthetic interventions. The digital advertising diagnostic domain is specific but the pattern transfers.