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Sahu & Arora (published on arXiv 2026-08-02) present a system that generates…

Authors
Tezan Sahu, Himani Arora
Categories
cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.HC, cs.LG
arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01042v1
PDF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.01042v1

Brief

The paper presents a system that generates persona-driven, temporally-evolving enterprise environments from real research and replays any chosen moment to evaluate agents. It infers a schema-driven temporal description and uses a deterministic+LLM procedure to rebuild historical record states; since queryable moments are finite, rebuilds are precomputed into a compact difference cache, yielding fast, reproducible, model-free lookups and avoiding costly per-instant tenant reprovisioning.

Why it matters

Sahu & Arora (published on arXiv 2026-08-02) present a system that generates persona-driven, temporally-evolving enterprise worlds and can replay any chosen moment to evaluate agents; it uses a schema-inferred temporal description and a deterministic-plus-LLM rebuild of each record's past state.

Key details

  • Because queryable moments are finite the system precomputes rebuilds into a compact difference cache, enabling fast, reproducible lookups with no model in the evaluation path; the paper (6 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables) was accepted as a poster at SERI 2026.
Source evidence

Abstract

Enterprise AI agents act across many apps whose data changes continuously, so an answer is correct only relative to what data existed and who could see it at the moment it was asked. Offline evaluation today grades against a single static snapshot, effectively the end of the episode. So, it can only evaluate one situation, the final one, even though every earlier moment of the episode is a different situation that invites its own realistic questions with its own correct answers. Recreating each of those moments as a separate snapshot would mean re-provisioning a whole tenant per instant, which is prohibitively costly; and even a single snapshot leaks future state hidden inside records and cannot represent the multi-app, time-ordered way real work happens. Our system closes two gaps at once: it generates a realistic, persona-driven, temporally-evolving enterprise world from real research, and replays that world at any chosen moment to evaluate any pluggable agent. A schema-inferred temporal description drives a deterministic-plus-LLM rebuild of each record's past state; because the queryable moments are finite, all rebuilds are precomputed into a compact difference cache, making evaluation a fast, reproducible lookup with no model in the path. We describe the design, an architecture spanning both flows, and early experience evaluating enterprise agents.

Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Accepted as a poster at SERI 2026