arXiv Computation and Language

MTAC-IFBench: Benchmarking Instruction-Following in Multi-Turn Agentic Coding

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

CCTU: A Benchmark for Tool Use under Complex Constraints

CCTU is a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to use tools under complex constraints. It includes 200 test cases that average seven constraint types and 4,700‑token prompts, covering resource, behavior, toolset, and response dimensions. An executable validation module performs step‑level checks, and nine state‑of‑the‑art LLMs were tested, revealing that none exceed a 20% task completion rate when strict constraints are enforced, with frequent violations and limited self‑refinement.

By Junjie Ye, Guoqiang Zhang, Wenjie Fu, Zelin Li, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv AI
3d ago

Multi-step SWE: Can Coding Agents Keep Building on Their Own Code Over Long Horizons?

The paper introduces Multi-step SWE, a benchmark consisting of 69 software engineering tasks that require a coding agent to perform 5–15 sequential, multi-hour engineering requests on a single codebase. Each step builds on the code produced in the previous step, making early design decisions and errors propagate throughout the chain. The benchmark covers four engineering work families, nine programming languages, and includes both from-scratch builds and existing open-source projects, with each step verified against a source of truth. Across nine state‑of‑the‑art models, the best achieves only an 18.5% solve rate, and 38 tasks remain unsolved by any model.

By Xiangkai Zeng, Zheng Liu, Zihao Lin
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Many-Tier Instruction Hierarchy in LLM Agents

The paper introduces Many-Tier Instruction Hierarchy (ManyIH), a new framework for resolving conflicts among instructions with arbitrarily many privilege levels in large language model agents. It presents ManyIH-Bench, a benchmark featuring 853 agentic tasks that require navigating up to 12 levels of conflicting instructions across 46 real-world agents. Experiments show current models achieve only about 40% accuracy when instruction conflict scales, highlighting a gap in fine-grained, scalable conflict resolution.

By Jingyu Zhang, Tianjian Li, William Jurayj, Hongyuan Zhan, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
arXiv AI
Oct 23

UserSWE: Evaluating Coding Agents in Multi-Turn Conversations with Dynamic Users

UserSWE is a new benchmark that evaluates coding agents’ ability to fix repository-level bugs through multi‑turn conversations with dynamic users, providing execution‑grounded verdicts after each turn. The benchmark transforms repository histories and existing single‑turn datasets into multi‑turn tasks, using a persona chain derived from 20,859 development sessions to simulate user interactions. Eleven agents were tested on 72 tasks from 42 repositories, revealing that agent rankings shift with the interaction budget and that single‑turn performance alone does not capture interactive coding capability.

By Zhan-Yu Wu, Ji Luo, Alyssa Wu, Junjielong Xu, Richeng Xuan, Zhichao Hu, Chongming Gao, Xinting Hu
arXiv AI
Oct 9

SWE-Journey: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Coding Assistants through Long-Horizon, Multi-Turn Interaction

SWE-Journey is a new benchmark designed to evaluate coding assistants in more realistic settings, focusing on long-horizon tasks and multi-turn interactions. It introduces a weak-to-strong synthesis pipeline to create extended coding challenges and a user-simulation agent based on four real user personas to mimic authentic code-assistance dialogues. The benchmark reveals that while models succeed on over 75% of tests with software architects, they manage less than 25% with non-coders, highlighting a significant gap in current assistant capabilities.

By Hexuan Deng, Yue Wang, Wenyu Jiang, Cheng Yang, Haolin Yang, Zhaohua Zhang, Chenchen Zhao, Beiduo Chen, Muxi Chen, Sa Zhu, Geyuan Zhu, Jianhuan Zhuo, Qiuyong Xiao, Tianwen Jiang, Jihong Zhang, Xuebo Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 23

SWE-DIVE: Multi-Turn Coding Agent Evaluation with Dynamic User Simulation

SWE-DIVE is a dynamic, interactive framework for evaluating coding agents in multi-turn scenarios. It introduces a user simulator that generates varied behavioral patterns and a conversation validator that checks whether the simulator’s outputs meet initial requirements, guiding the agent toward task completion. The framework runs within a Harbor environment that orchestrates the agent, simulator, and validator to assess success on coding tasks.

By Lorenz Brehme, Benjamin Steenhoek, Ruth Breu
arXiv AI
Oct 1

E2E-SWE: Benchmarking LLMs on Building Working Codebases from Scratch

E2E-SWE is a benchmark that tests large language models’ ability to create complete, functional software repositories from scratch. It includes 186 tasks across 11 programming languages, each requiring an agent to build an installable project based solely on a natural‑language specification and an empty workspace, while passing a hidden test suite. The benchmark was crafted by software engineers and LLMs, then refined through iterative verification by autonomous agents to ensure clarity and solvability.

By Hantian Ding, Chloe Bi, Jiacheng Zhu, John Yang, Matt Deitke, Pengcheng Yin, Zijian Wang, Rui Hou
arXiv AI
Jul 16

AgentCompass: A Unified Evaluation Infrastructure for Agent Capabilities

arXiv:2607. 13705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, the need for unified evaluation infrastructure becomes critical.

By Zichen Ding, Jiaye Ge, Shufan Jiang, Kai Chen, Mo Li, Qingqiu Li, Zehao Li, Zonglin Li, Tiaohao Liang, Shudong Liu, Zerun Ma, Zixing Shang, Wenhui Tian, Zun Wang, Liwei Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Jun Xu, Bowen Yang, Dingbo Yuan, Qi Zhang, Songyang Zhang, Peiheng Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu