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ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

arXiv AI
Oct 28

HiMA-Ecom: A Long-Horizon Memory Benchmark for Hierarchical Multi-Agent E-commerce Assistants

The paper introduces HiMA-Ecom, a hierarchical multi‑agent e‑commerce benchmark with 22.8K instances, where 17.7K include memory entries. It explores training, evaluation, and management of accumulated context in long‑horizon agentic systems, and proposes HiMA‑R1, a policy optimization method that controls trajectory context budgets and uses reward‑driven memory to accelerate convergence. Experiments show that agents built on 3B and 7B open‑source models outperform DeepSeek‑V3 by an average of 6.0 points, while reward‑driven memory cuts convergence steps by about 55%.

By Junxing Hu, Ai Han, Haolan Zhan, Pu Wei, Zhiqian Zhang, Yuhang Guo, Jiawei Lu, Zhen Chen, Haoran Li, Zicheng Zhang, Ling Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Sell More, Play Less: Benchmarking LLM Realistic Selling Skill

The paper introduces SalesLLM, a bilingual (Chinese/English) benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in realistic sales dialogues. It comprises 30,074 scripted configurations and 1,805 curated multi‑turn scenarios from Financial Services and Consumer Goods, with controllable difficulty and personas. An automatic evaluation pipeline uses an LLM judge for sales‑process progress and fine‑tuned BERT classifiers for end‑of‑dialogue buying intent, while a user model, CustomerLM, is trained to improve simulation fidelity. SalesLLM scores correlate strongly with human ratings (Pearson r = 0.86) and reveal that top Chinese LLMs match junior‑to‑intermediate human salespeople but not experts, with cross‑lingual consistency remaining poor.

By Xuanbo Su, Wenhao Hu, Le Zhan, Yuting Xie, Kailin Lyu, Kaijie Chen, Ziwei Li, Yeqiang Wang, Haibo Su, Yunzhang Chen, Ling Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Evaluating Memory Structure in LLM Agents

The paper introduces StructMemEval, a benchmark designed to assess how well large language model (LLM) agents can organize their long‑term memory rather than merely recall facts. It compiles tasks that humans typically solve by structuring knowledge—such as transaction ledgers, to‑do lists, and trees—and evaluates agents on these. Experiments show that simple retrieval‑augmented LLMs struggle with such organization tasks, while memory‑augmented agents perform better when explicitly prompted to structure their memory, yet many modern LLMs still fail to recognize memory structures without prompting.

By Alina Shutova, Alexandra Olenina, Ivan Vinogradov, Anton Sinitsin