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Correction to E5: 'ablat' has 2 hits in the v2 PDF text, 'Table 5: Ablation study on Blocksworld' (rewards R1 action likelihood, R2 task-specific, R3 self-evaluation; success 0.88 to 0.02 across combinations) and 'Table 6: Ablation study on GSM8k' (rewards incl. state transition confidence); 'ground truth', 'ground-truth' and 'oracle' remain 0. 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