New benchmark tests if LLM agents can handle miscommunication and shifting user goals

Drift-Bench++ simulates realistic interactions where users give incomplete instructions, change their minds, and have limited patience.

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Zheyuan Zhang · Mengyuan Chao · Ke Xiao · Ziyi Chen · Daoan Zhang · Yan Zhang · +2 more
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The authors introduce Interactive Intent Alignment, a task setting where agents must recover and track user intent despite miscommunication and evolving goals.

They formulated a new task setting: Interactive Intent Alignment, where user intent may be miscommunicated and change during interaction.

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LLM agents struggle to track evolving user intent under miscommunication, with large gaps from oracle performance.

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