arXiv AI

Async-RBench: Benchmarking Asynchronous Task Execution in LLM Agents

Async-RBench is a new benchmark that tests how large language model agents handle asynchronous task execution. It includes 200 executable tasks across eight scenarios, with a scenario controller that delivers results based on task-state conditions and an Event Response Contract that defines required changes, preservation, avoidance, and re-verification. The benchmark introduces the Dynamic Replanning Score (DRS) to evaluate both the response process and outcome, and finds that agents generally perform worse with asynchronous delivery compared to batched delivery, highlighting challenges in reliable asynchronous task handling.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

AstronOS: A Unified Execution Model and Runtime for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems

arXiv:2608. 16381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems often organize execution and state around a single conversation, model invocation, or agent instance, even when real work spans many calls and stages.

By Zhenhang Nie (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Gui Zheng (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Xudong Sun (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Tailong Zhu (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Bin Zhang (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China)
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Same Patient, Different Order: Action-Level Reliability of Clinical LLM Agents Under Repeated Runs

The paper introduces a new evaluation method called "same-input rerun" to assess the consistency of clinical language‑model agents across repeated runs. By replaying 1,000 MedAgentBench tasks with identical inputs, the authors find that action‑level outputs—such as test orders, medication requests, and referrals—vary significantly, even when benchmark scores remain unchanged. The study demonstrates that current benchmarks, which typically evaluate only a single run per task, can miss substantial behavioral divergence.

By Rohith Reddy Bellibatlu, Manpreet Singh, Zhoutian Han, Wenbin Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

UniACE: A Unified Framework for Evaluating LLM Agentic Capabilities

UniACE is a unified framework that standardizes the evaluation of large language model (LLM) agents by representing each benchmark as an instruction–tool–environment triplet and running models through a shared, task‑agnostic harness in isolated runtimes. It preserves native success criteria, offers an offline mode for dynamic‑resource tasks, and standardizes efficiency metrics, execution records, and failure attribution. Applying UniACE to 7 benchmarks across 24 domains and 15 models revealed significant score shifts, ranking reversals, and sensitivity to evidence representation, highlighting the impact of evaluation configuration on reported agent performance.

By Pengyu Zhu, Lijun Li, Yaxing Lyu, Qianxin Luo, Jingyi Yang, Yi Liu, Tingfeng Hui, Xinyu Yuan, Li Sun, Sen Su, Jing Shao
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0: Automating Diverse Task Construction and Measuring Sustained Agent Progress

arXiv:2610.14146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon terminal benchmarks measure whether an agent can sustain progress through extended workflows with process rewards, not only whether its fi...

By Zongxia Li, Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Ruhan Wang, Junyao Yang, Chengsong Huang, Zhichao Liu, Xiyang Wu, Anhao Li, Yue Yu, Ergan Shang, Fuxiao Liu, Tong Zheng, Ninghao Liu, Lichao Sun, Haitao Mi, Leowei Liang
arXiv AI
Jul 24

DynamicMCPBench: A Trace-Grounded, Effect-Scored Benchmark for LLM Agents over Live MCP Servers

arXiv:2607. 20531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed over Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, yet the benchmarks used to evaluate them score the final answer or a fixed "ground-truth" list of tools, both of which are fragile once the underlying data is live and stateful.

By Jerzy Kami\'nski, Ilya Galyukshev, Artem Kuznetsov, Sergey Chuprin, Kirill Redko, Aidar Shumbalov, Anna Kalyuzhnaya
arXiv AI
Aug 28

BekchiAI: Measuring, Observing, and Controlling LLM Agents in One Click

BekchiAI introduces a benchmark and platform for evaluating large language model agents. The benchmark comprises 13 tool‑using ReAct agents across seven task categories, totaling 2,057 deterministic test tasks with verifier‑checkable gold answers. The platform offers web‑based observability, token and latency telemetry, and remote run termination for live agents.

By Mesut Toruk