arXiv:2605.29225cs.AI2026-05被引 1

评测大模型智能体的反思与进化能力,揭示现有方法的局限性。

BenchTrace: A Benchmark for Testing Reflection Ability and Controlled Evolution in LLM Agents

论文配图:BenchTrace: A Benchmark for Testing Reflection Ability and Controlled Evolution in LLM Agents
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  • 构建包含1821个标注任务的基准,分反思与演化两阶段评估。
  • 模型反思准确率低于30%,且越往后越易遗忘早期教训。
  • 提出失败规避率新指标,适合研究自进化智能体的学者使用。

自进化智能体通过反思过往失败来提升性能,但现有评估仅关注任务得分,无法衡量反思质量,且依赖自身运行过程,无法针对特定失败模式进行测试。本文提出BenchTrace,一个用于评估大模型智能体自进化能力的基准。该基准基于涵盖六个不同任务的1821个标注任务片段数据集,包含两个评估模块:反射评估(通过定向问答测试失败识别能力),以及演化评估(在受控自进化模拟中检验过往失败经验是否转化为规避行为)。我们提出失败规避率(FAR)作为新指标,衡量智能体在测试中成功避开目标失败实例的比例。对Qwen3-32B和GPT-4.1的实验表明,两者在反射评估中的端到端通过率均低于30%,诊断能力是主要瓶颈。演化评估显示,自进化方法虽能提升FAR,但随着噪声任务增多,智能体逐渐遗忘早期经验,且反思难以跨任务泛化,导致负迁移。相关性分析进一步表明,只有完全正确的反思才与更高FAR显著相关。BenchTrace揭示了当前自进化方法的实质性局限,并提供了一个可控、模型无关的靶向评估框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Self-evolving agents improve over time by reflecting on past failures, but existing evaluation is limited in two ways: it measures only task scores, leaving reflection quality unknown, and it relies on agents' own episode runs, offering no mechanism to target specific failure patterns. We present \textbf{BenchTrace}, a benchmark for evaluating self-evolution ability in LLM agents. BenchTrace is built on a snapshot-reflection dataset of 1,821 annotated episodes spanning six diverse tasks, and comprises a \textbf{Reflection Evaluation} that probes failure identification through targeted QA tasks, and an \textbf{Evolution Evaluation} that tests whether past failure experience translates into avoidance behavior in a controlled self-evolution simulation. Building on BenchTrace, we propose \textbf{failure avoidance rate (FAR)}, a new evaluation metric measuring the fraction of test cases in which the agent successfully avoids the target failure instance. Experiments with Qwen3-32B and GPT-4.1 reveal that both models fall below a 30\% end-to-end pass rate on reflection evaluation, with diagnosis as the primary bottleneck. Evolution evaluation shows that self-evolution methods generally improve FAR over the non-evolving baseline, but agents forget early lessons as noise episodes accumulate, and agents fail to generalize their reflections beyond the specific context, causing negative transfer across task contexts. Our correlation analysis further reveals that only a fully correct reflection is strongly associated with higher FAR. BenchTrace exposes concrete limits of current self-evolution approaches and provides a controlled, model-agnostic framework for targeted evaluation.

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