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PublishedJune 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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What Benchmarks Don't Measure: The Case for Evaluating Abstention Competence in Autonomous Agents
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arXiv:2606.02965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks for autonomous agents measure whether agents complete tasks, yet this framing is systematically blind to whether an agent should have proceeded at all. Agents trained under human-feedback objectives develop a structural tendency to proceed e
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