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Diego Caples
dblp:405/3655
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Language models and text generation · 62% Reinforcement learning · 38% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Human-AI interaction · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
agent evaluation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites · NeurIPS 2025 |
Human-AI interaction › AI agent
web agents |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
LLM agents |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents
web agents |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction · NeurIPS 2025 |
Information retrieval
web navigation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
programmatic check · 2.6LLM-based judgment · 2.6reinforcement learning · 0.9curriculum learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real WebsitesabstractWe introduce REAL, a benchmark and framework for multi-turn agent evaluations on deterministic simulations of real-world websites. REAL comprises high-fidelity, deterministic replicas of 11 widely-used websites across domains such as e-commerce, travel, communication, and professional networking. We also release a benchmark consisting of 112 practical tasks that mirror everyday complex user interactions requiring both accurate information retrieval and state-changing actions. All interactions occur within this fully controlled setting, eliminating safety risks and enabling robust, reproducible evaluation of agent capability and reliability. Our novel evaluation framework combines programmatic checks of website state for action-based tasks with rubric-guided LLM-based judgments for information retrieval. The framework supports both open-source and proprietary agent systems through a flexible evaluation harness that accommodates black-box commands within browser environments, allowing research labs to test agentic systems without modification. Our empirical results show that frontier language models achieve at most a 41% success rate on REAL, highlighting critical gaps in autonomous web navigation and task completion capabilities. Our framework supports easy integration of new tasks, reproducible evaluation, and scalable post-training data generation, marking a significant step forward in evaluating and advancing agent capabilities. Divyansh Garg, Diego Caples, Andis Draguns, Nikil Ravi, Pranav Putta, Naman Garg, Prannay Hebbar, Youngchul Joo, Jindong Gu, Charles London, Christian Schröder de Witt, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2025 | Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time InteractionabstractTest-time scaling in agentic tasks often relies on generating long reasoning traces ("think" more) before acting, but this does not allow agents to acquire new information from the environment or adapt behavior over time. In this work, we propose scaling test-time interaction, an untapped dimension for test-time scaling that increases the agent's interaction horizon to enable rich behaviors such as exploration, backtracking, and dynamic re-planning within a single rollout. To demonstrate the promise of this scaling dimension, we situate our study in the domain of web agents. We first show that even prompting-based interaction scaling can improve task success on web benchmarks non-trivially. Building on this, we introduce TTI, a curriculum-based online reinforcement learning (RL) approach that trains agents by adaptively adjusting their interaction lengths during rollout. Using a Gemma 3 12B model, TTI sets a new state-of-the-art among open-source agents trained on public data on WebVoyager and WebArena. Case studies further reveal that TTI enables agents to balance exploration and exploitation adaptively. Our results establish interaction scaling as a powerful, complementary axis to scaling per-action compute, offering new avenues for training robust and adaptive agents. Junhong Shen, Lunjun Zhang, Amrith Setlur, Peter Tong, Diego Caples, Nan Jiang 0008, Tong Zhang 0001, Ameet Talwalkar, Aviral Kumar |
NeurIPS | 7 |