Configurable multi-agent framework for scalable and realistic testing of llm-based agents

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Main Authors: Wang, Sai, Subramanian, Senthilnathan, Sahni, Mudit, Gone, Praneeth, Meng, Lingjie, Wang, Xiaochen, Bertoli, Nicolas Ferradas, Cheng, Tingxian, Xu, Jun
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author Wang, Sai
Subramanian, Senthilnathan
Sahni, Mudit
Gone, Praneeth
Meng, Lingjie
Wang, Xiaochen
Bertoli, Nicolas Ferradas
Cheng, Tingxian
Xu, Jun
author_facet Wang, Sai
Subramanian, Senthilnathan
Sahni, Mudit
Gone, Praneeth
Meng, Lingjie
Wang, Xiaochen
Bertoli, Nicolas Ferradas
Cheng, Tingxian
Xu, Jun
contents Large-language-model (LLM) agents exhibit complex, context-sensitive behaviour that quickly renders static benchmarks and ad-hoc manual testing obsolete. We present Neo, a configurable, multi-agent framework that automates realistic, multi-turn evaluation of LLM-based systems. Neo couples a Question Generation Agent and an Evaluation Agent through a shared context-hub, allowing domain prompts, scenario controls and dynamic feedback to be composed modularly. Test inputs are sampled from a probabilistic state model spanning dialogue flow, user intent and emotional tone, enabling diverse, human-like conversations that adapt after every turn. Applied to a production-grade Seller Financial Assistant chatbot, Neo (i) uncovered edge-case failures across five attack categories with a 3.3% break rate close to the 5.8% achieved by expert human red-teamers, and (ii) delivered 10-12X higher throughput, generating 180 coherent test questions in around 45 mins versus 16h of human effort. Beyond security probing, Neo's stochastic policies balanced topic coverage and conversational depth, yielding broader behavioural exploration than manually crafted scripts. Neo therefore lays a foundation for scalable, self-evolving LLM QA: its agent interfaces, state controller and feedback loops are model-agnostic and extensible to richer factual-grounding and policy-compliance checks. We release the framework to facilitate reproducible, high-fidelity testing of emerging agentic systems.
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spellingShingle Configurable multi-agent framework for scalable and realistic testing of llm-based agents
Wang, Sai
Subramanian, Senthilnathan
Sahni, Mudit
Gone, Praneeth
Meng, Lingjie
Wang, Xiaochen
Bertoli, Nicolas Ferradas
Cheng, Tingxian
Xu, Jun
Artificial Intelligence
Large-language-model (LLM) agents exhibit complex, context-sensitive behaviour that quickly renders static benchmarks and ad-hoc manual testing obsolete. We present Neo, a configurable, multi-agent framework that automates realistic, multi-turn evaluation of LLM-based systems. Neo couples a Question Generation Agent and an Evaluation Agent through a shared context-hub, allowing domain prompts, scenario controls and dynamic feedback to be composed modularly. Test inputs are sampled from a probabilistic state model spanning dialogue flow, user intent and emotional tone, enabling diverse, human-like conversations that adapt after every turn. Applied to a production-grade Seller Financial Assistant chatbot, Neo (i) uncovered edge-case failures across five attack categories with a 3.3% break rate close to the 5.8% achieved by expert human red-teamers, and (ii) delivered 10-12X higher throughput, generating 180 coherent test questions in around 45 mins versus 16h of human effort. Beyond security probing, Neo's stochastic policies balanced topic coverage and conversational depth, yielding broader behavioural exploration than manually crafted scripts. Neo therefore lays a foundation for scalable, self-evolving LLM QA: its agent interfaces, state controller and feedback loops are model-agnostic and extensible to richer factual-grounding and policy-compliance checks. We release the framework to facilitate reproducible, high-fidelity testing of emerging agentic systems.
title Configurable multi-agent framework for scalable and realistic testing of llm-based agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14705