DiscoBench: When Search Agents Should Ask for ClarificationDiscoBench:搜索Agent何时应请求澄清的基准测试
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Researchers introduce DiscoBench, a benchmark evaluating when LLM search agents should stop searching and ask users for clarification on vague or underspecified queries instead of continuing retrieval.
The benchmark tests 211 samples across 11 domains with 463 ambiguity instances, finding that agents requesting clarification (SearchThenAsk) achieve higher pass rates than those repeatedly searching (SearchHeavyGuess) or directly guessing (DirectGuess).
The study reveals agents often detect uncertainty in retrieval results but fail to convert that uncertainty into appropriate external actions, pointing to a broader evaluation gap: assessing whether agents choose the right next action when the current path becomes unreliable.