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Do LLM Agents Execute the Plans They Declare? From Planning-Mode Declaration to Pattern-Specific Execution
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found LLM agents often fail to execute their declared plans faithfully, proposing pattern-specific routing to enforce intended planning structures.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building multi-step LLM agents where plan fidelity affects task success, especially in complex environments like code generation.
- Watch out
- LLMs still cannot reliably select the best planning mode for each task; routing improves execution but mode selection remains an open problem.
- agent
- llm
- language model
- long-horizon
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