Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures research paper by Scale AI, 2026
Scale AI · Agents and evaluation · Sep 11, 2026 · 0 citations · 5 upvotes
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Continual Search improves automated root-cause attribution in long agent execution traces by iteratively prompting diagnosis until unresolved evidence is found.
By Harsh Raj, David Lee, Anas Mahmoud and 7 more · arXiv 2609.13463 · PDF
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