LLM Agent Evaluation

Interactive benchmarks for LLMs usually report a single metric, even though succeeding in them requires models to show several different skills. While those benchmarks are useful for measuring the overall capability of models to perform the downstream task, it is harder to identify which skill was lacking and caused failure solely from the aggregate score. For example, in benchmarks where models are supposed to navigate a simulated world to perform a task, failures can come from perception, an ambiguous instruction, retrieval, missing commonsense about what actions do, unknown dynamics, or planning. \benchmark recasts the procedurally generated BabyAI gridworld as a fully observable, purely textual environment designed to evaluate planning separately from those factors. The nature of the environment and the structure of the prompt control for the other factors cited above. To evaluate the models, we define the PPD suite: Predict asks for the state that follows an action sequence, Plan asks for an action sequence that reaches a goal, and Decompose asks for a subgoal sequence that achieves a mission. Across seven frontier and open models, queried zero-shot, we find simulation far ahead of planning for every model, close to saturated for the strongest. The length of the required solution governs planning failure, and each of the four strongest models has a horizon beyond which single-attempt success collapses. The responses of claude-opus-4-6 and claude-sonnet-4-6, which show their working step by step, reveal that they plan by proposing L-shaped corridors, which is consistent with their successful plans staying near-optimal while success falls. At the subgoal level, decomposition precision likewise falls to zero on long missions, while comprehension of those missions persists.

Earth Observation (EO) provides critical planetary data for environmental monitoring, disaster management, climate science, and other scientific domains. In this work we ask: Are AI systems ready for reliable Earth Observation? To answer this, we introduce UnivEARTH, a coding benchmark of 408 yes/no questions from NASA Earth Observatory articles across 7 various topics and over 15 satellite instruments and sources. Using Google Earth Engine API as a tool in a zero-shot setup, LLM agents achieve an accuracy of 40.0% where the code fails to run over 44% of the time. To better understand LLM agent behavior, we also analyze the impact of using the JavaScript API versus Python and the effect of providing documentation. Furthermore, we find that using a Reflexion framework significantly reduces errors: Claude-4.5-Sonnet, Gemini-2.5-Pro, and GPT-5 accuracies rise to around 60%. However, these results remain only marginally above random chance. Taken together, our findings identify significant challenges to be solved before AI agents can automate earth observation, and suggest paths forward.

This survey examines evaluation methods for large language model (LLM)-based agents in multi-turn conversational settings. Using a PRISMA-inspired framework, we systematically reviewed nearly 250 scholarly sources, capturing the state of the art from various venues of publication, and establishing a solid foundation for our analysis. Our study offers a structured approach by developing two interrelated taxonomy systems: one that defines what to evaluate and another that explains how to evaluate. The first taxonomy identifies key components of LLM-based agents for multi-turn conversations and their evaluation dimensions, including task completion, response quality, user experience, memory and context retention, as well as planning and tool integration. These components ensure that the performance of conversational agents is assessed in a holistic and meaningful manner. The second taxonomy system focuses on the evaluation methodologies. It categorizes approaches into annotation-based evaluations, automated metrics, hybrid strategies that combine human assessments with quantitative measures, and self-judging methods utilizing LLMs. This framework not only captures traditional metrics derived from language understanding, such as BLEU and ROUGE scores, but also incorporates advanced techniques that reflect the dynamic, interactive nature of multi-turn dialogues.

Radiology, with its heterogeneous modalities, anatomies, and evolving protocols, is a natural yet high-stakes testbed for agentic AI. As LLMs grow more capable and tool ecosystems such as MCP and Agent Skills more complex, their capability boundaries in radiology remain unclear. We introduce RadA-BenchPlat, a two-layer benchmark spanning idealized reasoning and real-world execution: a synthetic layer with 2.2k clinician-verified records, 24.2k QA pairs, and 10 tool categories under diverse availability settings; and a real-environment layer pairing 165 2D/3D cases with executable tools for grounding, diagnosis, and report generation. We find that high completion rates under idealized settings do not carry over to real environments, where the best agents trail their upper bound by approximately 15% and drop to 0.327 on long-chain tasks. Prompting strategies (few-shot exemplars, multi-agent coordination) and AutoTB (on-the-fly synthesis of missing tools) mitigate execution drift and breakdowns in difficult scenarios, lifting execution success to 94.5%, yet remain not fully reliable. Overall, our findings suggest that radiology agents are no longer limited to conceptual demonstrations, but are beginning to show potential for real-world applications. Project repository: https://github.com/MAGIC-AI4Med/RadABench