Jul 2026
Do AI Agents Know When a Task Is Simple? Toward Complexity-Aware Reasoning and Execution
This work formalizes minimum-sufficient execution and the Agent Cognitive Redundancy Ratio (ACRR), and proposes E3 (Estimate, Execute, Expand): the agent estimates an initial operating point, executes a minimum viable path, and expands scope only when verification fails.
J. Yin, Xinyu Feng
· arXiv.org · 1 citation