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Tezan Sahu

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Who Belongs in the Eval Set? A Capability-Taxonomy-Driven Pipeline for Curating Regression Eval Sets in Agent-Extensibility Platforms

Platform teams hosting agent-extensibility surfaces face a regression-economics paradox: every onboarding customer ships an evaluation set tuned to their domain, but the platform's regression set must live under a hard query-count ceiling bounded by release cadence. To our knowledge, no published industrial pipeline addresses this platform-side curation problem: existing evaluation frameworks are customer-side, and benchmark-compression work treats benchmarks as fixed pools rather than streams of incoming sets. We describe a capability-taxonomy-driven curation pipeline applied to declarative agents with custom actions in Microsoft 365 Copilot. It takes an agent specification and a customer's eval set as input, projects each query into a platform-owned capability taxonomy, and outputs per-query decisions (admit, drop, swap, or human review), under the philosophy that a healthy regression set is the minimal set of queries capturing the maximal spread of capability signatures -- distinct combinations of capabilities a query exercises together. Three components instantiate this: a classifier producing per-(query, capability) verdicts via a hybrid of deterministic specification-based extraction and large-language-model (LLM) semantic inference; an Invocation Quality (IQ) rater scoring how thoroughly a query exercises each capability, so a new query sharing a signature with an existing entry can still be recognized as a better test and displace it; and a consolidator comparing incoming queries against the regression set on coverage and quality through a rule-based decision cascade, backed by a conservative curator that only suggests evictions. The mechanism is taxonomy-agnostic and applies to any regression eval-set curation problem with a typed capability taxonomy, including taxonomies that evolve in response to the very evidence the pipeline surfaces.

cs.LG

What Could the Agent See at 19:05? Generating Temporal Enterprise Scenarios from Real Research and Replaying Them to Evaluate Agents

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.

cs.SE

Travelling Salesman Problem: Parallel Implementations & Analysis

The Traveling Salesman Problem (often called TSP) is a classic algorithmic problem in the field of computer science and operations research. It is an NP-Hard problem focused on optimization. TSP has several applications even in its purest formulation, such as planning, logistics, and the manufacture of microchips; and can be slightly modified to appear as a sub-problem in many areas, such as DNA sequencing. In this paper, a study on parallelization of the Brute Force approach (under several paradigms) of the Travelling Salesman Problem is presented. Detailed timing studies for the serial and various parallel implementations of the Travelling Salesman Problem have also been illustrated.

cs.DS

Lookup or Exploratory: What is Your Search Intent?

Search query specificity is broadly divided into two categories - Exploratory or Lookup. If a query specificity can be identified at the run time, it can be used to significantly improve the search results as well as quality of suggestions to alter the query. However, with millions of queries coming every day on a commercial search engine, it is non-trivial to develop a horizontal technique to determine query specificity at run time. Existing techniques suffer either from lack of enough training data or are dependent on information such as query length or session information. In this paper, we show that such methodologies are inadequate or at times misleading. We propose a novel methodology, to overcome these limitations. First, we demonstrate a heuristic-based method to identify Exploratory or Lookup intent queries at scale, classifying millions of queries into the two classes with a high accuracy, as shown in our experiments. Our methodology is not dependent on session data or on query length. Next, we train a transformer-based deep neural network to classify the queries into one of the two classes at run time. Our method uses a bidirectional GRU initialized with pretrained BERT-base-uncased embeddings and an augmented triplet loss to classify the intent of queries without using any session data. We also introduce a novel Semi-Greedy Iterative Training approach to fine-tune our model. Our model is deployable for real time query specificity identification with response time of less than one millisecond. Our technique is generic, and the results have valuable implications for improving the quality of search results and suggestions.

cs.IR