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Beyond Outcomes: Dual-View Relational Learning for Efficient Agent Benchmarking

arXiv 2609.18909 ↗First posted 16 Sep 2026cs.CL cs.AIcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Agent benchmarks are substantially more costly to evaluate than conventional LLM benchmarks. Benchmark compression is therefore a natural solution, yet existing methods primarily model redundancy in task--model final-score distributions, which is important in agentic evaluation. To address this limitation, we analyze large-scale trajectories and identify six complementary process signals that are systematically associated with final agent performance. To disentangle agent performance redundancy from a complete perspective, we propose DualViewEval, an agent benchmark compression method that jointly exploits outcome and process relations to learn an exact-size miniset and predict the full-benchmark scores. Across five agent benchmarks and five representative baselines, DualViewEval achieves the best results in all datasets. With only 20 tasks, it achieves 24×--40× compression on APEX-Agents and BFCL, reducing mean absolute error (MAE) by 14.5%--28.2% over the strongest competitors while improving Kendall's τ by up to 7.2% relative to EssenceBench on SWE-bench Verified. The selected minisets further reveal capability differences among different agents, providing compact and diagnostic feedback for efficient agentic model development.

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