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Equation 4 · Part 1 · Measuring AI Agent Architectures: Evidence, Benchmarks, and Uncertainty

Symbol p^8

p8p^8
p8p^8

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tau-bench’s reported results are worse than even that pessimistic independence assumption predicts: the authors report pass8s^8 below 25% in the retail domain, a figure that is lower than p8p^8 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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