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The recent surge in AI agents that autonomously communicate, collaborate with humans and use diverse tools has unlocked promising opportunities in various real-world settings. However, a vital aspect remains underexplored: how agents handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nabeel Seedat , Jiashuo Liu , Mihaela van der Schaar

We introduce DeepSearchQA, a 900-prompt benchmark for evaluating agents on difficult multi-step information-seeking tasks across 17 different fields. Unlike traditional benchmarks that target single answer retrieval or broad-spectrum…

Deep research agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform multi-step reasoning, web exploration, and long-form report generation. However, most existing systems operate in an autonomous manner, assuming fully specified user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yingchaojie Feng , Qiang Huang , Xiaoya Xie , Zhaorui Yang , Jun Yu , Wei Chen , Anthony K. H. Tung

Reproducibility problems that have long affected machine learning and reinforcement learning are now surfacing in agent research: papers compare systems by reported scores while leaving the rollout records behind those scores difficult to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Charlie Masters , Ziyuan Liu , Stefano V. Albrecht

Today's AI models learn primarily through mimicry and refining, so it is not surprising that they struggle to solve problems beyond the limits set by existing data. To solve novel problems, agents should acquire skills for exploring and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Raj Ghugare , Roger Creus Castanyer , Catherine Ji , Kathryn Wantlin , Jin Schofield , Karthik Narasimhan , Benjamin Eysenbach

Customer experience plays a critical role for a profitable organisation or company. A satisfied customer for a company corresponds to higher rates of customer retention, and better representation in the market. One way to improve customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 S. Filippou , A. Tsiartas , P. Hadjineophytou , S. Christofides , K. Malialis , C. G. Panayiotou

Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products and covers queries across hundreds of tools. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sanat Sharma , Jayant Kumar , Twisha Naik , Zhaoyu Lu , Arvind Srikantan , Tracy Holloway King

We interact with computers on an everyday basis, be it in everyday life or work, and many aspects of work can be done entirely with access to a computer and the Internet. At the same time, thanks to improvements in large language models…

AI agents have been developed for complex real-world tasks from coding to customer service. But AI agent evaluations suffer from many challenges that undermine our understanding of how well agents really work. We introduce the Holistic…

How well can AI-derived synthetic research data replicate the responses of human participants? An emerging literature has begun to engage with this question, which carries deep implications for organizational research practice. This article…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jason Miklian , Kristian Hoelscher , John E. Katsos

With the rapid growth in sensor data, effectively interpreting and interfacing with these data in a human-understandable way has become crucial. While existing research primarily focuses on learning classification models, fewer studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Benjamin Reichman , Xiaofan Yu , Lanxiang Hu , Jack Truxal , Atishay Jain , Rushil Chandrupatla , Tajana Šimunić Rosing , Larry Heck

Workspace learning requires AI agents to identify, reason over, exploit, and update explicit and implicit dependencies among heterogeneous files in a worker's workspace, enabling them to complete both routine and advanced tasks effectively.…

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive language/vision reasoning abilities, igniting the recent trend of building agents for targeted applications such as shopping assistants or AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Liqiang Jing , Zhehui Huang , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenlin Yao , Wenhao Yu , Kaixin Ma , Hongming Zhang , Xinya Du , Dong Yu

Customer service has evolved beyond in-person visits and phone calls to include live chat, AI chatbots and social media, among other contact options. Service providers typically refer to these contact modalities as "channels". Within each…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Maqbool Dada , Brett Hathaway , Evgeny Kagan

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant enhancements in the performance of chatbot systems. Many researchers have dedicated their efforts to the development of bringing characteristics to chatbots. While there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xi Wang , Hongliang Dai , Shen Gao , Piji Li

We introduce AvalancheBench, a benchmark for evaluating enterprise data agents through \emph{latent world recovery}. AvalancheBench improves on existing benchmarks in three ways. First, it evaluates analytical understanding rather than…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enabled the development of AI agents that can plan and interact with tools to complete complex tasks. However, literature on their reliability in real-world applications remains limited. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Junyi Shen , Goodman Gu

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and their automatic extraction from conversations remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Xiangyu Peng , Shilpa Bhagavath , Caiming Xiong , Shiva Kumar Pentyala , Chien-Sheng Wu

In e-commerce, behavioral data is collected for decision making which can be costly and slow. Simulation with LLM powered agents is emerging as a promising alternative for representing human population behavior. However, LLMs are known to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Saab Mansour , Leonardo Perelli , Lorenzo Mainetti , George Davidson , Stefano D'Amato

Large language models are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems to overcome context limitations by distributing information across agents. Yet whether agents can reliably compute with distributed information, rather than merely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuzhe Zhang , Feiran Liu , Yi Shan , Xinyi Huang , Xin Yang , Yueqi Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Wenyuan Jiang