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New benchmark PlanBench-XL reveals LLM agent planning failures

A new benchmark called PlanBench-XL has been developed to evaluate the long-horizon planning capabilities of LLM agents in large tool ecosystems. The benchmark includes 327 retail tasks and over 1,600 tools, testing agents' ability to discover relevant tools and adapt to dynamic environments. Experiments showed that even advanced models like GPT-5.4 struggle with planning in these complex scenarios, especially when tools fail or are unavailable, highlighting the need for more robust adaptive planning. AI

IMPACT Highlights significant challenges in LLM agent planning for complex, real-world tasks, indicating a need for improved robustness and adaptability.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark PlanBench-XL reveals LLM agent planning failures

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Dilek Hakkani-Tür ·

    PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems

    LLM agents increasingly operate in large tool ecosystems, where real-world tasks require discovering relevant tools, inferring implicit sub-goals, and adapting to dynamic environments over long horizons. However, existing benchmarks rarely evaluate planning under retrieval-limite…