The papers

Most central to this idea first, not most recent.

• Top Universitycs.AI

  API benchmark scores poorly predict performance in consumer chatbot interfaces

  Stanford University · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.IR

  Benchmark tests retrieval for agent-written queries across 190 million web pages

  Perplexity AI · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.CV

  Identity preservation remains a distinct challenge for generative image models

  Phota Labs Research · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.SE

  Enterprise agents struggle when facts are hidden across business systems

  Sept 2026

• Independentcs.SE

  Refresh schedules, not cache age, determine agent answer staleness

  Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AIcode

  Models remain weak at steering coding agents through long tasks

  DreamX Team, Alibaba Group · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.CL

  LLM agents struggle to infer wellbeing from long-term wearable data

  Dartmouth College, University of Cambridge · Aug 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Replayable news timelines test how LLM agents update forecasts

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Amazon · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.LGcode

  New benchmark standardizes evaluation of coding agent harnesses

  TokenRhythm Technologies, Infinigence AI · June 2026

• Top Universitycs.CL

  Simulated user personas improve agents’ handling of multi-turn workflows

  State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, Peking University · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  New benchmark reveals coordination as distinct bottleneck for LLM agents

  University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford · June 2026

• Independentcs.CL

  LLM agents do not reliably improve from their own experience

  Sept 2026

• Independentcs.CL

  Models struggle to improve themselves from vague capability goals

  Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Process-level tests expose distinct mathematical agent capabilities in LLMs

  Sun Yat-sen University, Tencent Youtu Lab · Aug 2026