SEP 9, 2026 · PREPRINT
TRACE: Training Reasoning Agents for Causal Exploration with Synthesized Rewards
arXiv
This is a proof-of-concept study of a machine-learning method (TRACE) in a simulated diagnostic environment; it demonstrates technical feasibility and relative performance gains in an artificial task, but does not address clinical validity, real-world diagnostic accuracy, or applicability to actual clinical reasoning.
Reported
Prompted baseline (Claude Opus 5)…0.686
Supervised fine-tuned Qwen3.5-35B…0.159
Supervised fine-tuned Qwen3.5-35B…0.637