τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains

Shunyu Yao, Noah Shinn, Pedram Razavi, Karthik Narasimhan

τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains: 13 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #21 of 24 papers on 2024-06-21. Day-by-day upvote history.

Existing benchmarks do not test language agents on their interaction with human users or ability to follow domain-specific rules, both of which are vital for deploying them in real world applications. We propose tau-bench, a benchmark emulating dynamic conversations between a user (simulated by language models) and a language agent provided with domain-specific API tools and policy guidelines. We employ an efficient and faithful evaluation process that compares the database state at the end of a conversation with the annotated goal state. We also propose a new metric (pass^k) to evaluate the reliability of agent behavior over multiple trials. Our experiments show that even state-of-the-art function calling agents (like gpt-4o) succeed on <50% of the tasks, and are quite inconsistent (pass^8 <25% in retail). Our findings point to the need for methods that can improve the ability of agents to act consistently and follow rules reliably.

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