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New research benchmarks long-horizon failures in LLM agents and proposes system-level hallucination control

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arxiv.org · arxiv.org · 2026-04-15 04:00 UTC
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Overview

Recent work highlights challenges large language model (LLM) agents face in long-horizon tasks requiring extended, interdependent actions, introducing HORIZON, a cross-domain benchmark to diagnose these failures across models like GPT-5 and Claude.

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HORIZONXinyu Jessica WangHaoyue BaiYiyou SunHaorui WangShuibai ZhangWenjie HuMya Schroder
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1.21
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2
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2
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Duplicate ratio
0%
Why now
  • Rapid progress in agentic LLMs demands better diagnostics for long-horizon task performance.
  • Hallucination remains a critical barrier to LLM adoption, motivating new mitigation strategies.
  • Cross-domain benchmarks and system-level approaches enable scalable, reproducible evaluation and improvement.
Why it matters
  • Long-horizon task failures limit the deployment of LLM agents in complex real-world applications.
  • Reducing hallucination improves trustworthiness and safety of AI-generated outputs.
  • System-level controls complement model improvements for more reliable AI behavior.
LLM analysis
Topic mix: lowPromo risk: lowSource quality: high
Recurring claims
  • LLM agents perform well on short- and mid-horizon tasks but degrade on long-horizon tasks requiring extended, interdependent actions
  • A model-agnostic gating control layer can reduce hallucination in LLM outputs by validating answer support before generation
How sources frame it
  • Xinyu Jessica Wang Et Al.: neutral
  • 99TimesAround: supportive
This cluster highlights complementary advances in diagnosing long-horizon failures in LLM agents and reducing hallucination through system-level gating controls, both critical for robust AI deployment.
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arXiv cs.LG and cs.AI RSS
arxiv.org · arxiv.org · 2026-04-15 04:00 UTC
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reddit.com · reddit.com · 2026-04-15 01:39 UTC
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