Overview

AI agent benchmarks test systems that act over multiple steps, use tools, and respond to changing information, rather than only answer isolated questions. Researchers build executable environments for settings such as web search, coding, graphical interfaces, games, scientific workflows, and multi-agent coordination, then score outcomes with programmatic checks, expert rubrics, or simulated users. Increasingly, evaluations also inspect trajectories, evidence use, efficiency, safety, and recovery from errors. Agents can perform well on narrow tasks yet remain unreliable on long-horizon work, and results often depend strongly on the model, harness, environment, and grading method.

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1,503 papers271 papers in the last four weeks, up 91% on the four weeks before. 1.6% of all new papers.

  1. Agentic Frameworks for Reasoning Tasks: An Empirical Study

    Apr 17, 2026Zeeshan Rasheed, Abdul Malik Sami, Muhammad Waseem +3LLM Agent OrchestrationAI Agent Evaluation

  2. Complete Cyclic Subtask Graphs for Tool-Using LLM Agents: Flexibility, Cost, and Bottlenecks in Multi-Agent Workflows

    Apr 17, 2026Luay Gharzeddine, Samer SaabMulti-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Orchestration

  3. SocialGrid: A Benchmark for Planning and Social Reasoning in Embodied Multi-Agent Systems

    Apr 17, 2026Hikaru Shindo, Hanzhao Lin, Lukas Helff +2LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  4. GTA-2: Benchmarking General Tool Agents from Atomic Tool-Use to Open-Ended Workflows

    Apr 17, 2026Jize Wang, Xuanxuan Liu, Yining Li +7Tool-Use EvaluationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  5. Stargazer: A Scalable Model-Fitting Benchmark Environment for AI Agents under Astrophysical Constraints

    Apr 17, 2026Xinge Liu, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf +2AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAI Agent Benchmarks

  6. PolicyBank: Evolving Policy Understanding for LLM Agents

    Apr 16, 2026Jihye Choi, Jinsung Yoon, Long T. Le +2AI Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Governance

  7. CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas

    Apr 16, 2026Emanuel Tewolde, Xiao Zhang, David Guzman Piedrahita +2Social DilemmasCooperative Game Theory

  8. PRL-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Capabilities in Frontier Physics Research

    Apr 16, 2026Tingjia Miao, Wenkai Jin, Muhua Zhang +19LLM EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  9. HWE-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Hardware Bug Repair Tasks

    Apr 16, 2026Fan Cui, Hongyuan Hou, Zizhang Luo +2Automated Program RepairElectronic Design Automation

  10. DR3^{3}-Eval: Towards Realistic and Reproducible Deep Research Evaluation

    Apr 16, 2026Qianqian Xie, Qingheng Xiong, He Zhu +16LLM Agent EvaluationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  11. Mind DeepResearch Technical Report

    Apr 16, 2026MindDR Team, Li Auto IncMulti-Agent LLM SystemsDeep Research Agents

  12. HINTBench: Horizon-agent Intrinsic Non-attack Trajectory Benchmark

    Apr 15, 2026Jiacheng Wang, Jinchang Hou, Fabian Wang +3AI Agent AuditingLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  13. [COMP25] The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2025 Challenges and Results

    Apr 15, 2026Reyhan Aydoğan, Tim Baarslag, Tamara C. P. Florijn +3Automated NegotiationMulti-Agent Negotiation

  14. GeoAgentBench: A Dynamic Execution Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Agents in Spatial Analysis

    Apr 15, 2026Bo Yu, Cheng Yang, Dongyang Hou +6LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  15. MERRIN: A Benchmark for Multimodal Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning in Noisy Web Environments

    Apr 15, 2026Han Wang, David Wan, Hyunji Lee +6AI Agent BenchmarksMultimodal Search Agents

  16. Exploration and Exploitation Errors Are Measurable for Language Model Agents

    Apr 14, 2026Jaden Park, Jungtaek Kim, Jongwon Jeong +3Exploration-Exploitation TradeoffLLM Agent Evaluation

  17. AlphaEval: Evaluating Agents in Production

    Apr 14, 2026Pengrui Lu, Bingyu Xu, Wenjun Zhang +24AI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  18. Long-Horizon Plan Execution in Large Tool Spaces through Entropy-Guided Branching

    Apr 13, 2026Rongzhe Wei, Ge Shi, Min Cheng +5Uncertainty-Aware ExplorationLLM Agent Planning

  19. The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break

    Apr 13, 2026Xinyu Jessica Wang, Haoyue Bai, Yiyou Sun +7Long-Horizon Agent TasksAgent Failure Analysis

  20. UniToolCall: Unifying Tool-Use Representation, Data, and Evaluation for LLM Agents

    Apr 13, 2026Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge +5LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  21. PAC-BENCH: Evaluating Multi-Agent Collaboration under Privacy Constraints

    Apr 13, 2026Minjun Park, Donghyun Kim, Hyeonjong Ju +5Multi-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Coordination

  22. PaperScope: A Multi-Modal Multi-Document Benchmark for Agentic Deep Research Across Massive Scientific Papers

    Apr 13, 2026Lei Xiong, Huaying Yuan, Zheng Liu +2AI Agent BenchmarksMultimodal Model Evaluation

  23. BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investment Banking Workflows

    Apr 13, 2026Elaine Lau, Markus Dücker, Ronak Chaudhary +24AI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks