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20222025
most citedEvaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks

15 citations · 45 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AI2025

HCAST: Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks

David Rein, Joel Becker, Amy Deng +19

To understand and predict the societal impacts of highly autonomous AI systems, we need benchmarks with grounding, i.e., metrics that directly connect AI performance to real-world…

cs.AI2025★ 14 cited

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks

Thomas Kwa, Ben West, Joel Becker +23

Despite rapid progress on AI benchmarks, the real-world meaning of benchmark performance remains unclear. To quantify the capabilities of AI systems in terms of human capabilities,…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

RE-Bench: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts

Hjalmar Wijk, Tao Lin, Joel Becker +20

Frontier AI safety policies highlight automation of AI research and development (R&D) by AI agents as an important capability to anticipate. However, there exist few evaluations fo…

cs.CL2024★ 15 cited

Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks

Megan Kinniment, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, Haoxing Du +10

In this report, we explore the ability of language model agents to acquire resources, create copies of themselves, and adapt to novel challenges they encounter in the wild. We refe…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction

Buck Shlegeris, Fabien Roger, Lawrence Chan +1

Current language models are considered to have sub-human capabilities at natural language tasks like question-answering or writing code. However, language models are not trained to…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Adversarial Training for High-Stakes Reliability

Daniel M. Ziegler, Seraphina Nix, Lawrence Chan +9

In the future, powerful AI systems may be deployed in high-stakes settings, where a single failure could be catastrophic. One technique for improving AI safety in high-stakes setti…