Language-model agents struggle to track and act on changing requirements

A human-constructed benchmark tests eleven agents on shopping and travel tasks, finding weaknesses in both recovering revised intentions and executing them.

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Jieyu Zhou · Zijian Wang · Yun Wang

Georgia Institute of Technology · Microsoft Research

Research Digest··2 min read
Illustration: Language-model agents struggle to track and act on changing requirements
Zhou and colleagues introduce IntentDelta, a benchmark that tests whether language-model agents can follow users who change requirements during a task.

The authors constructed 638 multi-turn trajectories containing 3,766 turns across WebShop and TravelPlanner, environments for product shopping and travel planning.

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