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The verifiability litmus test for agent design
Researchers argue that an agent's verifiability—whether it can recognize its own correct outcome—should dictate how engineering budgets are spent between verification and diversity strategies. Testing this litmus test across agentic search, deep research, RAG indexing, and coding, they demonstrate that tasks with checkable outcomes benefit from verification and selection, while unverifiable tasks require diverse generation and aggregation. Applying these optimized architectures yielded state-of-the-art performance improvements across all four domains.
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