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UserProxyBench: Evaluating LLM User Simulators for Agent Benchmarks and Training
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- UserProxyBench introduces a scoring system to measure whether simulated users in agent benchmarks follow their instructions correctly, independent of agent performance.
- Why it matters
- Matters when building multi-turn agent benchmarks or training agents with reinforcement learning using language models as simulated users.
- Watch out
- User instruction violations like premature information disclosure don't always hurt task rewards but do change the interaction being evaluated, masking evaluation quality issues.
- agent
- llm
- language model
- eval
- benchmark
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