Equation 4 · Part 1 · Measuring AI Agent Architectures: Evidence, Benchmarks, and Uncertainty
Symbol p^8
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tau-bench’s reported results are worse than even that pessimistic independence assumption predicts: the authors report pas below 25% in the retail domain, a figure that is lower than would be if the single-trial success rate were applied under a true-independence assumption [ 6 ] . That gap is the signature of correlated rather than independent failure — the same underlying policy tends to fail the same task in the same way on repeated attempts, rather than failing at…
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- [6] tau-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains ↗
- [7] AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agents ↗
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