arXiv AI

MCPAgentBench: A Real-world Task Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agent MCP Tool Use

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
Jun 16

ToolMenuBench: Benchmarking Tool-Menu Filtering Strategies for Reliable and Efficient LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 15508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model agents increasingly operate over large tool libraries, but existing evaluations often focus on whether a model can call a tool correctly rather than how the visible tool menu shapes reliability, efficiency, and safety-relevant risk exposure.

By Rahul Suresh Babu, Laxmipriya Ganesh Iyer
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Explore Separately, Adopt Selectively: Execution-Guided Tool Use over Large Tool Libraries

The paper introduces BRIA (BRanch-Inspect-Adopt), an agent that isolates tool‑candidate investigations into separate branches, executing each candidate independently and then inspecting the execution evidence to adopt only useful results. BRIA dynamically retrieves additional tools as new needs arise during task execution and is evaluated on PlanBench‑XL and MCP‑Atlas with a library of 1,897 tools, outperforming or matching the strongest retrieval baselines. On MCP‑Atlas, BRIA achieves an average claim score of 89.77 versus 75.40 for MCP‑Zero, and it lies on the Pareto frontier for task performance and input‑token cost.

By Anna Mazhar, Seiji Maekawa, Nikita Bhutani
arXiv AI
Jul 17

MCPEvol-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Performance Across Dynamic Evolutions of MCP Servers

arXiv:2607. 14642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers emerge as the core infrastructure for connecting LLMs with external tools, existing benchmarks leverage real-world MCP servers to evaluate LLM agents' tool-using capabilities.

By Huanxi Liu, Kun Hu, Jiaqi Liao, Qiang Wang, Pengfei Qian, YuanZhao Zhai, Dawei Feng, Bo Ding, Huaimin Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments

arXiv:2607. 05174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents, i.

By Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Jixuan Huang, Honglin Guo, Baodai Huang, Tinggang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhonghang Lu, Chenyu Liu, Jiajun Sun, Jiazheng Zhang, Dingwei Zhu, Xin Guo, Junzhe Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Yuming Yang, Junjie Ye, Minghe Gao, Dongrui Liu, Jiaming Ji, Guohao Li, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv AI
Sep 30

AnyAct: Universal Action for Self-Evolving Agents

AnyAct introduces a universal action layer that consolidates diverse tool capabilities into a self‑evolving action space for AI agents operating in open‑world environments. It tackles the scale dilemma, tool non‑stationarity, and heterogeneous feedback by using hierarchical progressive retrieval and test‑time reliability evolution, while a heterogeneous observation grounding module unifies multi‑modal feedback. Evaluations on LiveMCPBench and the newly created OSMCP benchmark show state‑of‑the‑art performance, with significant gains in task success rate and reduced execution steps, especially for models with limited native capabilities.

By Lingrui Xu, Yangqin Jiang, Jiachang Zhang, Xubin Ren, Chao Huang
arXiv AI
2d ago

HarnessFlow: MCTS-Guided Harness Optimization for LLM Agents

HarnessFlow is a framework that automates the optimization of executable harnesses for large language model agents using a Monte Carlo Tree Search policy to balance exploration and exploitation. It refines harness candidates through a coding agent that leverages archived code, execution feedback, and reusable mechanisms, operating within a limited evaluation budget. Across six benchmarks covering agentic tasks, coding, and web interaction, HarnessFlow achieves the highest mean test scores, improving average performance by 10.89 percentage points over initial harnesses and 3.95 over Meta-Harness, while also reducing per-task execution costs.

By Zhi Hong, Qianlong Wang, Hongchen Wei, Aidan Wu, Daohong Ying, Mingze Kong, Bei Liu, Chong Luo