Agents' Last Exam research paper by UC Berkeley, 2026
UC Berkeley · Agents and evaluation · Jun 3, 2026 · 42 citations · 393 upvotes
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Over 1,000 real, checkable professional tasks written with 250+ industry experts; the hardest tier is far from solved.
By Yiyou Sun, Xinyang Han, Weichen Zhang and 305 more · arXiv 2606.05405 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 42, 4 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 393 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- UC Berkeley
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