Control Under Compression: Reliability Frontiers for Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2608.01056 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-02 · Read on arXiv

Yinghan Hou, Zongyou Yang

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-02

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures; includes an appendix

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Redundancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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