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New CatchBench benchmark evaluates AI agent failure detection across multiple states

Researchers have introduced CatchBench, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of AI agents to detect their own failures. Unlike previous benchmarks, CatchBench assesses agents across three distinct information states: pre-run declared configurations, live traces during execution, and post-run finished traces. The benchmark includes seven task contracts with specific metrics, rather than a single leaderboard, to accommodate the different questions each state allows. Initial evaluations involved 72 entrants, including various LLM judges from major model families, across numerous configurations and runs, with many participants failing to achieve clear orderings. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more robust AI agents by improving their ability to self-diagnose and correct errors.

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New CatchBench benchmark evaluates AI agent failure detection across multiple states

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yue Zhao ·

    CatchBench: When Can an Agent Failure Be Caught?

    When can an agent failure be caught? An audit is usually limited by the record rather than by the method. CatchBench therefore puts one auditor's question to three information states: the declared configuration before a run (PRE), a growing prefix of its trace (LIVE), and the fin…