LLM Agent Evaluation

LLM: Large Language Model

Overview

The field studies whether language-model agents can use tools, manage state, follow instructions, and achieve users’ goals across multi-step interactions. Benchmarks place agents in executable settings such as coding repositories, websites, terminals, business workflows, and medical or scientific tasks, while methods use hidden tests, state checks, trajectory analysis, and simulated users to assess performance. Evaluation increasingly includes cost, latency, privacy, safety, consistency, and process quality—not just whether the final answer is correct. Results remain difficult to compare because harnesses and scoring choices can change rankings, and strong performance on short or isolated tasks often fails to transfer to long-horizon real-world work.

Latest papers

CardsList

1,217 papers231 papers in the last four weeks, up 62% on the four weeks before. 1.3% of all new papers.

  1. Talk Freely, Execute Strictly: Schema-Gated Agentic AI for Flexible and Reproducible Scientific Workflows

    Mar 6, 2026Joel Strickland, Arjun Vijeta, Chris Moores +7LLM Agent OrchestrationScientific Workflow Automation

  2. Tool-Genesis: A Task-Driven Tool Creation Benchmark for Self-Evolving Language Agent

    Mar 5, 2026Bowei Xia, Mengkang Hu, Shijian Wang +5Tool-Using AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  3. DARE: Aligning LLM Agents with the R Statistical Ecosystem via Distribution-Aware Retrieval

    Mar 5, 2026Maojun Sun, Yue Wu, Yifei Xie +5Data Analysis AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

  4. iAgentBench: Benchmarking Sensemaking Capabilities of Information-Seeking Agents on High-Traffic Topics

    Mar 4, 2026Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Arnav Palkhiwala, Tanya Roosta +1AI Agent BenchmarksLLM Agent Evaluation

  5. ττ-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge

    Mar 4, 2026Quan Shi, Alexandra Zytek, Pedram Razavi +2LLM Agent EvaluationAgent Evaluation

  6. CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?

    Mar 4, 2026Alex Thillen, Niels Mündler, Veselin Raychev +1Automated Code RefactoringAutomated Software Engineering

  7. On the Suitability of LLM-Driven Agents for Dark Pattern Audits

    Mar 4, 2026Chen Sun, Yash Vekaria, Rishab NithyanandLLM Agent ReliabilityLLM Agent Evaluation

  8. Agentified Assessment of Logical Reasoning Agents

    Mar 3, 2026Zhiyu Ni, Yifeng Xiao, Zheng LiangLLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  9. Evaluating and Understanding Scheming Propensity in LLM Agents

    Mar 2, 2026Mia Hopman, Jannes Elstner, Maria Avramidou +2AI Agent SafetyLLM Agents

  10. Can AI Agents Agree?

    Mar 1, 2026Frédéric Berdoz, Leonardo Rugli, Roger WattenhoferMulti-Agent ConsensusLLM Agent Reliability

  11. Evaluating Agents Across Runtime Contracts: When Mismatch Costs Efficiency or Quality

    Mar 1, 2026Victor May, Van Khue Nguyen, Aaditya Salgarkar +3Tool-Using AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

  12. SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?

    Feb 28, 2026Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou +13Tool-Using AgentsTool Use

  13. RAVEL: Reasoning Agents for Validating and Evaluating LLM Text Synthesis

    Feb 28, 2026Andrew Zhuoer Feng, Cunxiang Wang, Yu Luo +9Language Model Generation EvaluationLLM Agent Evaluation

  14. EMPA: Evaluating Persona-Aligned Empathy as a Process

    Feb 28, 2026Shiya Zhang, Yuhan Zhan, Ruixi Su +4LLM Agent EvaluationMulti-Turn Dialogue Evaluation

  15. Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directions

    Feb 26, 2026Yue Xu, Qian Chen, Zizhan Ma +5LLM AgentsLLM Personalization

  16. MobilityBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Route-Planning Agents in Real-World Mobility Scenarios

    Feb 26, 2026Zhiheng Song, Jingshuai Zhang, Chuan Qin +6LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  17. A Framework for Assessing AI Agent Decisions and Outcomes in AutoML Pipelines

    Feb 25, 2026Gaoyuan Du, Amit Ahlawat, Xiaoyang Liu +1AI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Auditing

  18. A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis

    Feb 24, 2026Debjit Paul, Daniel Murphy, Milan Gritta +14LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  19. Can AI be a Teaching Partner? Evaluating ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek across Three Teaching Strategies

    Feb 24, 2026Talita de Paula Cypriano de Souza, Shruti Mehta, Matheus Arataque Uema +2AI in EducationGenerative AI in Education

  20. AgenticRAGTracer: A Hop-Aware Benchmark for Diagnosing Multi-Step Retrieval Reasoning in Agentic RAG

    Feb 22, 2026Qijie You, Wenkai Yu, Wentao ZhangMulti-Hop QALLM Agent Evaluation

  21. Evaluating Test-Time Scaling of General LLM Agents

    Feb 22, 2026Xiaochuan Li, Ryan Ming, Pranav Setlur +6LLM Agent EvaluationTest-Time Scaling

  22. WorkflowPerturb: Calibrated Stress Tests for Evaluating Multi-Agent Workflow Metrics

    Feb 20, 2026Madhav Kanda, Sharad Agarwal, Rodrigo Fonseca +2LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  23. Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Reusability and Verifiability

    Feb 19, 2026Shashank Aggarwal, Ram Vikas Mishra, Amit AwekarCoT EvaluationLLM Reasoning