@article{everystepcountssteplevelcreditassignment,
  title = {Every Step Counts: Step-Level Credit Assignment for Tool-Integrated Text-to-SQL},
  author = {Yaxun Dai and Baolin Sun and Junying Wang and Pengfei Wang and Yingqi Gao and Xuemei Dong and Mengdie Chu and Xiang Qi and Pingfu Chao},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.04719},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04719},
}