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MACEval: A Multi-Agent Continual Evaluation Network for Large Models

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-02 v2

Abstract

Hundreds of benchmarks dedicated to evaluating large models have been presented over the past few years. However, most of them remain closed-ended and are prone to overfitting due to the potential data contamination. Moreover, the increasing scale and scope of current benchmarks with transient metrics, as well as the heavily human-dependent curation procedure, pose significant challenges for timely maintenance and adaptation. In this paper, we introduce MACEval, a Multi-Agent Continual Evaluation network for dynamic evaluation of large models, and define new metrics to quantify performance longitudinally. MACEval employs an interactive and autonomous evaluation mode, utilizing role assignment, in-process data generation, and evaluation routing through a cascaded agent network. Extensive experiments on 23 large models demonstrate the effectiveness of MACEval, which also lightens the evaluation process and reduces a considerable amount of overhead. We hope that MACEval can broaden future directions of large model evaluation. Project page: https://github.com/zijianchen98/MACEval.

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@article{arxiv.2511.09139,
  title  = {MACEval: A Multi-Agent Continual Evaluation Network for Large Models},
  author = {Zijian Chen and Yuze Sun and Yuan Tian and Wenjun Zhang and Guangtao Zhai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09139},
  year   = {2026}
}

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32 pages, 14 figures

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