Equation 10 · Part 1 · Reliable AI Agents Are Control Systems, Not Chatbots
Symbol n
What this part means
the number of dependent stages.
Its job in the formula
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
Suppose a task has n dependent stages and each stage succeeds with conditional probability given that all previous stages succeeded.
The passage around this formula
Single-turn model quality can hide long-horizon fragility. Suppose a task has n dependent stages and each stage succeeds with conditional probability given that all previous stages succeeded. Then
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Sources cited in the article section
- [9] SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? ↗
- [10] tau-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains ↗
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