AGENTIC-SYSTEMSMay 20, 20261 min read15 views

DecisionBench: A Benchmark for Emergent Delegation in Long-Horizon Agentic Workflows

Researchers have introduced DecisionBench, a pioneering benchmark designed to measure the emergent delegation capabilities of AI agents in complex, long-horizon workflows. The study highlights significant gaps in current LLM orchestration and opens up new avenues for optimizing multi-agent system performance.

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

Title:DecisionBench: A Benchmark for Emergent Delegation in Long-Horizon Agentic Workflows

View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We introduce DecisionBench, a benchmark substrate for emergent delegation in long-horizon agentic workflows. The substrate fixes a task suite (GAIA, tau-bench, BFCL multi-turn), a peer-model pool (11 models, 7 vendor families), a delegation interface (call_model plus an optional read_profile channel), a deterministic skill-annotation layer, and a multi-axis metric suite covering quality, cost, latency, delegation rate, routing fidelity-at-k, vendor self-preference, and a counterfactual-delegation ceiling. The substrate is agnostic to how peer information is generated or delivered, so learned routers, richer peer memories, adaptive profile construction, and multi-step delegation can all be evaluated against it. We characterize the substrate with a five-condition reference sweep on the full pool (n=23,375 task instances). Three benchmark-level findings emerge: (i) mean end-task quality is statistically indistinguishable across the four awareness conditions (|beta| <= 0.010, p >= 0.21), so quality-only evaluation would miss the orchestration signal; (ii) routing fidelity-at-1 ranges from 7.5% to 29.5% across conditions at near-equal mean quality, with delivery channel (on-demand tool vs. preloaded description) dominating description content; (iii) a counterfactual ceiling places perfect delegation 15-31 percentage points above measured performance on every suite, locating large unrealized headroom for future orchestration methods. We release the substrate, annotation layer, reference intervention suite, analysis pipeline, and 220 per-condition run archives.

Source: arXiv cs.AI Recent

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