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Main Authors: Bariah, Lina, Mefgouda, Brahim, Tavakkoli, Farbod, Molero, Enrique, Powell, Louis, Debbah, Merouane
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06209
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author Bariah, Lina
Mefgouda, Brahim
Tavakkoli, Farbod
Molero, Enrique
Powell, Louis
Debbah, Merouane
author_facet Bariah, Lina
Mefgouda, Brahim
Tavakkoli, Farbod
Molero, Enrique
Powell, Louis
Debbah, Merouane
contents The integration of large language model (LLM) agents into telecom networks introduces new challenges, related to intent recognition, tool execution, and resolution generation, while taking into consideration different operational constraints. In this paper, we introduce TelcoAgent-Bench and TelcoAgent-Metrics, a Telecom-specific benchmarking framework for evaluating multilingual telecom LLM agents. The proposed framework assesses the semantic understanding as well as process-level alignment with structured troubleshooting flows and stability across repeated scenario variations. Our contribution includes a structured suite of metrics that assess intent recognition, ordered tool execution, resolution correctness, and stability across scenario variations, with the aim of quantifying the reliability and operational consistency of LLM agents in telecom environments. The framework is designed to operate in both English and Arabic, to address the need for multilingual agent deployment in operational network environments. Our experimental results show that although recent instruct-tuned models can understand telecom problems in a reasonable way, they usually struggle to consistently follow the required troubleshooting steps and to maintain stable behavior when exposed to different variations of the same scenario. This performance gap becomes more pronounced in unconstrained and bilingual settings.
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spellingShingle TelcoAgent-Bench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Telecom AI Agents
Bariah, Lina
Mefgouda, Brahim
Tavakkoli, Farbod
Molero, Enrique
Powell, Louis
Debbah, Merouane
Computation and Language
The integration of large language model (LLM) agents into telecom networks introduces new challenges, related to intent recognition, tool execution, and resolution generation, while taking into consideration different operational constraints. In this paper, we introduce TelcoAgent-Bench and TelcoAgent-Metrics, a Telecom-specific benchmarking framework for evaluating multilingual telecom LLM agents. The proposed framework assesses the semantic understanding as well as process-level alignment with structured troubleshooting flows and stability across repeated scenario variations. Our contribution includes a structured suite of metrics that assess intent recognition, ordered tool execution, resolution correctness, and stability across scenario variations, with the aim of quantifying the reliability and operational consistency of LLM agents in telecom environments. The framework is designed to operate in both English and Arabic, to address the need for multilingual agent deployment in operational network environments. Our experimental results show that although recent instruct-tuned models can understand telecom problems in a reasonable way, they usually struggle to consistently follow the required troubleshooting steps and to maintain stable behavior when exposed to different variations of the same scenario. This performance gap becomes more pronounced in unconstrained and bilingual settings.
title TelcoAgent-Bench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Telecom AI Agents
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06209