LUMINA: Long-horizon Understanding for Multi-turn Interactive Agents

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Autores principales: Rakhsha, Amin, Hehn, Thomas, Mazzaglia, Pietro, Massoli, Fabio Valerio, Behboodi, Arash, Orekondy, Tribhuvanesh
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author Rakhsha, Amin
Hehn, Thomas
Mazzaglia, Pietro
Massoli, Fabio Valerio
Behboodi, Arash
Orekondy, Tribhuvanesh
author_facet Rakhsha, Amin
Hehn, Thomas
Mazzaglia, Pietro
Massoli, Fabio Valerio
Behboodi, Arash
Orekondy, Tribhuvanesh
contents Large language models can perform well on many isolated tasks, yet they continue to struggle on multi-turn, long-horizon agentic problems that require skills such as planning, state tracking, and long context processing. In this work, we aim to better understand the relative importance of advancing these underlying capabilities for success on such tasks. We develop an oracle counterfactual framework for multi-turn problems that asks: how would an agent perform if it could leverage an oracle to perfectly perform a specific task? The change in the agent's performance due to this oracle assistance allows us to measure the criticality of such oracle skill in the future advancement of AI agents. We introduce a suite of procedurally generated, game-like tasks with tunable complexity. These controlled environments allow us to provide precise oracle interventions, such as perfect planning or flawless state tracking, and make it possible to isolate the contribution of each oracle without confounding effects present in real-world benchmarks. Our results show that while some interventions (e.g., planning) consistently improve performance across settings, the usefulness of other skills is dependent on the properties of the environment and language model. Our work sheds light on the challenges of multi-turn agentic environments to guide the future efforts in the development of AI agents and language models.
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spellingShingle LUMINA: Long-horizon Understanding for Multi-turn Interactive Agents
Rakhsha, Amin
Hehn, Thomas
Mazzaglia, Pietro
Massoli, Fabio Valerio
Behboodi, Arash
Orekondy, Tribhuvanesh
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models can perform well on many isolated tasks, yet they continue to struggle on multi-turn, long-horizon agentic problems that require skills such as planning, state tracking, and long context processing. In this work, we aim to better understand the relative importance of advancing these underlying capabilities for success on such tasks. We develop an oracle counterfactual framework for multi-turn problems that asks: how would an agent perform if it could leverage an oracle to perfectly perform a specific task? The change in the agent's performance due to this oracle assistance allows us to measure the criticality of such oracle skill in the future advancement of AI agents. We introduce a suite of procedurally generated, game-like tasks with tunable complexity. These controlled environments allow us to provide precise oracle interventions, such as perfect planning or flawless state tracking, and make it possible to isolate the contribution of each oracle without confounding effects present in real-world benchmarks. Our results show that while some interventions (e.g., planning) consistently improve performance across settings, the usefulness of other skills is dependent on the properties of the environment and language model. Our work sheds light on the challenges of multi-turn agentic environments to guide the future efforts in the development of AI agents and language models.
title LUMINA: Long-horizon Understanding for Multi-turn Interactive Agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16649