arXiv AI

Budget-Aware Tool Use Enables Effective Agent Scaling

arXiv:2511. 17006v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling test-time computation has been extended from language model reasoning to tool-augmented agents, where scaling involves not only thinking in tokens but also acting via tool calls that directly constrain environmental interaction.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

MLS-Bench: A Holistic and Rigorous Assessment of AI Systems on Building Better AI

arXiv:2605. 08678v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern AI progress has been driven by ML methods that are generalizable across settings and scalable to larger regimes.

By Bohan Lyu, Yucheng Yang, Siqiao Huang, Jiaru Zhang, Qixin Xu, Xinghan Li, Xinyang Han, Yicheng Zhang, Huaqing Zhang, Runhan Huang, Kaicheng Yang, Zitao Chen, Wentao Guo, Junlin Yang, Xinyue Ai, Wenhao Chai, Yadi Cao, Ziran Yang, Kun Wang, Dapeng Jiang, Huan-ang Gao, Shange Tang, Chengshuai Shi, Simon S. Du, Max Simchowitz, Jiantao Jiao, Dawn Song, Chi Jin
arXiv AI
Jun 12

AgentBeats: Agentifying Agent Assessment for Openness, Standardization, and Reproducibility

arXiv:2606. 13608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented.

By Xiaoyuan Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yuqi Chen, Siyuan Xie, Sihan Ren, Tianneng Shi, Gal Gantar, Evan Sandoval, Donghyun Lee, Daniel Miao, Peter J. Gilbert, Nick Hynes, Mauro Staver, Warren He, David Marn, Andrew Low, Xi Zhang, Elron Bandel, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Siva Reddy, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste, Ramayya Krishnan, Elham Tabassi, Yu Su, Victor Barres, Chenguang Wang, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song
arXiv AI
Aug 26

PeakBench: Benchmarking Resource-Aware Tool Invocation in LLM Agents

PeakBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how large language model agents invoke multiple tools while respecting resource constraints and parallel execution. It provides executable multi‑tool workflows with dependency annotations and measured resource profiles, and introduces a two‑part evaluation framework that separates logical planning from physical scheduling. The study shows that strong logical planning alone does not guarantee safe or efficient execution, and that providing resource information can reduce overflows and improve utilization.

By Zhi-Kai Chen, Xu-Xiang Zhong, Song-Yan Li, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Verify Smarter, Evolve Further: Efficient Harness Evolution through Behavior-Aware Verification

The paper introduces HarnessLens, a budget‑aware framework that evolves language‑model agent harnesses by jointly exploring task spaces and user‑configurable components. It derives candidate modifications from execution trajectories and selectively verifies them on behavior‑relevant tasks using an attributable‑evidence gate, thereby avoiding wasteful rollouts on unrelated behaviors. Experiments on three harnesses and four benchmarks show that HarnessLens improves held‑out performance by 7.6‑13.6% while using less evaluation budget than existing methods.

By Jinghan Xu, Yikai Zhang, Aili Chen, Weiyuan Li, Jiaqing Liang, Deqing Yang