@article{coveragenotcreditfailurecreditroutingofz, title = {Coverage, Not Credit: Failure-Credit Routing of Zeroth-Order Perturbation Budgets Does Not Improve On-Pool Sample Efficiency for LLM Agents}, author = {Yuxu Ge}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.28011}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28011}, }