AutoLibra: Agent Metric Induction from Open-Ended Feedback

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02820v2
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:46:27 GMT
• Title: AutoLibra: Agent Metric Induction from Open-Ended Feedback
• Authors: Hao Zhu, Phil Cuvin, Xinkai Yu, Charlotte Ka Yee Yan, Jason Zhang, Diyi Yang,
• Abstract summary: AutoLibra is a framework for agent evaluation that transforms open-ended human feedback.<n>We experimentally demonstrate AutoLibra's ability to induce more concrete agent evaluation metrics.<n>We show that AutoLibra-induced metrics serve as better prompt-engineering targets than the task success rate.
• Score: 44.905607036805634
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Agents are predominantly evaluated and optimized via task success metrics, which are coarse, rely on manual design from experts, and fail to reward intermediate emergent behaviors. We propose AutoLibra, a framework for agent evaluation, that transforms open-ended human feedback e.g. "If you find that the button is disabled, don't click it again", or "This agent has too much autonomy to decide what to do on its own" into metrics for evaluating fine-grained behaviors in agent trajectories. AutoLibra accomplishes this by grounding feedback to an agent's behavior, clustering similar positive and negative behaviors, and creating concrete metrics with clear definitions and concrete examples, which can be used for prompting LLM-as-a-Judge as evaluators. We further propose two meta-metrics to evaluate the alignment of a set of (induced) metrics with open feedback: "coverage" and "redundancy". Through optimizing these meta-metrics, we experimentally demonstrate AutoLibra's ability to induce more concrete agent evaluation metrics than the ones proposed in previous agent evaluation benchmarks and discover new metrics to analyze agents. We also present two applications of AutoLibra in agent improvement: First, we show that AutoLibra-induced metrics serve as better prompt-engineering targets than the task success rate on a wide range of text game tasks, improving agent performance over baseline by a mean of 20%. Second, we show that AutoLibra can iteratively select high-quality fine-tuning data for web navigation agents. Our results suggest that AutoLibra is a powerful task-agnostic tool for evaluating and improving language agents.

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