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

ArXiv CS.AI2026-05-29NEWSen作者: Jiahao Huang, Fei Cheng, Junfeng Jiang, Zefan Yu, Akiko Aizawa

摘要

arXiv:2605.29225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.