AI agents still cannot reliably deliver end-to-end on underspecified business requests.

New benchmark of real customer projects finds best agent configuration scores 0.55 out of 1.0 against accepted human solutions.

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Huaiming Li · Can Huang · Chufan Wu · Danyu Liu · Xiaomin Yuan · Qinze Li · +15 more
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The authors present FDE-Bench, a benchmark of 49 cases built from real customer projects.

FDE-Bench covers 29 combinatorial optimization and 20 machine learning cases.

Why this paper

Independent · Part of Process Agent Benchmarks, now 27 papers

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FDE-Bench tests agents on real business requests needing clarification and optimization; best agent achieved 0.5510 delivery score versus a 1.0 FDE reference.

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