arXiv AI

AgentOrch: How Close Can Global Orchestration Come to Step-by-Step Interaction?

AgentOrch is a benchmark that compares global orchestration—where a complete workflow is generated upfront—with step‑by‑step interaction on 650 enterprise standard operating procedures and 3,220 runtime variants. Across all evaluated models, step‑by‑step remains more accurate, but the performance gap has narrowed by about 79% from early to recent models. The study identifies three methods—incremental workflow construction, revising workflows with execution feedback, and targeted training on complete workflows—that can further close the gap, improving global orchestration accuracy by up to 12.18 percentage points.

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

Proactive Agentic Orchestration

The paper introduces POrchestra, a proactive agentic orchestration framework that lets sub‑agents request harness adjustments during execution, enhancing adaptability to dynamic environments. It also proposes On‑Policy Orchestration Distillation (OPOD), which uses hindsight feedback from sub‑agents’ requests to provide targeted improvement signals for training the orchestration policy. Experiments on three long‑horizon benchmarks show that POrchestra boosts task success by about 9.1% over the best baseline, and with OPOD the improvement rises to 10.0%, while also improving cost‑performance trade‑offs.

By Xueyang Feng, Chaozhuo Li, Xiaohe Bo, Jiakai Tang, Chenxi Li, Qiwei Ye, Xu Chen
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 16

RSIFlow: Adaptive Self-Improvement Workflows with an Evolving Meta-Agent

RSIFlow is a recursive self‑improvement framework that combines adaptive workflow orchestration with a meta‑agent that evolves its own harness. It diagnoses performance bottlenecks from task‑agent trajectories and environmental feedback, then dynamically selects component‑specific improvement workflows. Experiments on six benchmarks and two backbone models show that RSIFlow achieves state‑of‑the‑art average performance, with ablation studies confirming the benefits of adaptive orchestration and meta‑harness evolution.

By Huan Zhang, Mingju Chen, Dongxu Zhou, Can Lv, Sen Cui, Faguo Wu, Shiji Zhou
arXiv AI
Oct 7

WorkflowOps: Learning Agent Collaboration Priors for Multi-Agent Workflow Orchestration

WorkflowOps is a multi‑agent workflow orchestration framework that learns collaboration priors from historical workflows. It uses a transition probability matrix to guide DAG construction, a sufficiency‑driven loop to create new agents on demand via an LLM, and a layered semantic matching strategy to reduce LLM calls. Experiments show that WorkflowOps improves end‑to‑end pass rates, especially on structured, decomposable tasks.

By Qi Cheng, Shengyu Chen, Wei Cheng, Zhengzhang Chen, Xiaowei Jia, Haoyu Wang, Haifeng Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 28

E-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Step Tool-Use Agents in Real-World Product Scenarios

arXiv:2607. 23722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that interact with stateful environments over multiple steps: gathering hidden information, composing tool calls, and committing state changes.

By Weihuang Zheng, Tianyuan Zou, Eileen Ye, Alphet Liu, Youyong Kong, Ya-Qin Zhang, Duran Zheng, Maxm Pan
arXiv AI
Sep 30

WEFT: Scaling Tool-Use Post-Training for General-Purpose Agents

arXiv:2609.36887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent efforts to scale tool-use post-training have largely centered on the synthesis of executable environments, which constitute only one component o...

By Bo Mao, Hang He, Linting Wang, Lizhi Lin, Maosen Zhou, Guanming Liu, Jinxiu Liu, Tianyu Huai, Chaoyun Zhang, Bingxuan Li, Kepeng Lei, Guanting Dong, Zhou Shao, Rui Zheng, Hang Yan, Jie Zhou, Chengcheng Wan, Tao Gui, Liang He, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

SwarmBench: Can Large Language Models Act as Agent Swarm Orchestrators?

SwarmBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) as orchestrators of agent swarms, assessing accuracy, efficiency, cost, and process quality. The study finds significant variations in orchestration performance among current models, affecting not only final outcomes but also the quality of the orchestration process itself. To address these gaps, the authors introduce SwarmExp, a method that uses experience extraction and replay to consistently enhance LLM orchestration performance.

By Jinshan Gao, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao