Agents & Automation

Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluation

Proactive service moves the decision upstream: agents choose among silent, ask, assist, act; the option value of waiting, the decision value of questions; reliable proactivity requires calibrated intervention value, verifiable authorization, recoverable execution, counterfactual evidence - long memory is not the defining condition

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Proactive service moves the decision upstream: agents choose among silent, ask, assist, act; the option value of waiting, the decision value of questions; reliable proactivity requires calibrated intervention value, verifiable authorization, recoverable execution, counterfactual evidence - long memory is not the defining condition

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Title
Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluation
Author
Tang, Cao, Tang, Tang & Hu
Publication
arXiv
Date
Friday, September 4, 2026