arXiv AI
Oct 2

Agent Evaluation Reliability: More Tasks Won't (Always) Fix An Agent Leaderboard

Agent evaluations increasingly benchmark LLMs, but rankings can be swayed by evaluation conditions such as scaffolds or tasks, making reliability claim‑dependent. A Bayesian variance‑decomposition framework applied to 22 benchmarks shows that reliability varies with the measurement goal: fixed model‑scaffold systems rank reliably, while underlying‑model rankings are less stable. Scaffold choice can alter conclusions, and adding more tasks only modestly improves reliability when scaffold coverage is limited; however, pooling diverse benchmarks can substantially raise cross‑task ranking reliability and reduce cost.

By Michael Hardy, Ruhana Azam, Anka Reuel, Mykel Kochenderfer, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv AI
Aug 28

BekchiAI: Measuring, Observing, and Controlling LLM Agents in One Click

BekchiAI introduces a benchmark and platform for evaluating large language model agents. The benchmark comprises 13 tool‑using ReAct agents across seven task categories, totaling 2,057 deterministic test tasks with verifier‑checkable gold answers. The platform offers web‑based observability, token and latency telemetry, and remote run termination for live agents.

By Mesut Toruk
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Ask the Tool, Don't Guess: Agent Tool Calls Hold Their Progress, and the Serving System Should Read It

The paper argues that agentic systems waste time and memory by guessing how long tool calls will take, rather than using explicit progress signals from the tools themselves. It demonstrates that tools can report their remaining work or imminent completion, and that incorporating this feedback into serving systems dramatically improves cache decisions and reduces token latency. The authors show that this approach outperforms existing predictors and works robustly across different environments.

By Yipeng Liu, Yingqiang Zhang, Feifei Li, Huanchen Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Evaluating Skills, Not Just Agents: Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills

The paper introduces ACES (Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills), a framework that evaluates reusable skills and capability packages by running paired live trials with and without a target skill, normalizing results into the Agent Trajectory Interchange Format (ATIF), and grading six runtime metrics to compute Skill Lift. ACES demonstrates that scan-only gates miss important aspects of skill performance, while the evaluation protocol reveals significant improvements in skill execution, behavior check, and skill efficiency across 145 real skills and 947 scored cases. The open‑source NVIDIA SkillEvaluator implementation enables reproducible, repository‑native assessment of agentic skills in production environments.

By Christopher Kevin, Narendran Raghavan, Jean-Francois Puget, Roshni Malani, Meghana Puvvadi, Moshe Abramovitch, Mohit Gupta, Rama Akkiraju, Subodh Prabhu, Yogesh Dangi, Wei Luo, Seong Hee Lee