Minghe Gao
2026
AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments
Zhiheng Xi | Dingwen Yang | Jiaqi Liu | Jixuan Huang | Honglin Guo | Baodai Huang | Tinggang Chen | Qi Zhang | Zhonghang Lu | Chenyu Liu | Jiajun Sun | Jiazheng Zhang | Dingwei Zhu | Xin Guo | Junzhe Wang | Zhihao Zhang | Yuming Yang | Junjie Ye | Minghe Gao | Dongrui Liu | Jiaming Ji | Guohao Li | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhiheng Xi | Dingwen Yang | Jiaqi Liu | Jixuan Huang | Honglin Guo | Baodai Huang | Tinggang Chen | Qi Zhang | Zhonghang Lu | Chenyu Liu | Jiajun Sun | Jiazheng Zhang | Dingwei Zhu | Xin Guo | Junzhe Wang | Zhihao Zhang | Yuming Yang | Junjie Ye | Minghe Gao | Dongrui Liu | Jiaming Ji | Guohao Li | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Language agents, i.e., LLM agents, progress rapidly and are increasingly deployed in production environments. This trend underscores the urgent need for rigorous and realistic evaluations. However, most existing benchmarks evaluate agents in simplified, idealized settings. They typically rely on pre-packaged tool interfaces, overlook critical steps, and assume inputs are clean and fully specified. Consequently, they understate the difficulty of real deployments, where uncertainty and noise are ubiquitous and agents must proactively explore the environment to uncover new tools. To bridge this gap, we present AgentGym2, a new evaluation framework with task instances grounded in real-world end-to-end working demands. Beyond reasoning and planning, it measures agents’ ability to execute end-to-end procedures, discover tools via exploration, compose tools for unseen tasks, and remain robust to noisy and underspecified information. Experiments on 15 proprietary and open-source models show that even SOTA systems like Gemini and GPT-5 struggle on AgentGym2, revealing a substantial gap between the capability of current agents and the demands of real-world applications.