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Compositional Agent Evaluation

Rather than measuring success solely through final outcomes, this approach evaluates how effectively an agent performs each component of a task and integrates these components to achieve a goal.

Authors
N. Adeyemi, R. Patel, J. Costa, M. Larsen
Venue
NeurIPS 2026
Published
Aug, 2026.
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Compositional Agent Evaluation

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  • Evaluation

    Internal report

    Rubric Drift in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

    Quantifying how grading rubrics decay when applied to multi-step agent runs — and a calibration loop that recovers signal.

    Jul, 2026.

    R. Patel, J. Costa

  • Methodology

    Domain-Adapted Annotation Quality

    Comparing expert vs. crowd labelling across legal, medical and STEM corpora — and what closes the gap.

    Jun, 2026.

    M. Larsen, S. Okafor

  • Multimodal

    EMNLP 2026

    Multimodal Instruction Tuning at Scale

    Methodology for blending image, video and audio instruction data in training mixes without collapsing modal-specific capabilities.

    Jun, 2026.

    S. Okafor, A. Reyes, R. Patel

  • Agents

    ICML 2026

    Synthetic Data for Coding Agents

    How synthetic execution traces lift downstream coding benchmark scores — with a recipe for keeping the traces from over-fitting.

    Jun, 2026.

    J. Costa, N. Adeyemi

  • Methodology

    The Economics of Expert Annotation

    A practitioner guide to budgeting expert review against agreement floors — and where multi-layer review buys itself back.

    May, 2026.

    M. Larsen

  • Multimodal

    Internal report

    Temporal Grounding for Video Event Annotation

    An internal protocol for annotating long-form video events with sub-second precision and inter-annotator agreement above 94%.

    Apr, 2026.

    A. Reyes, S. Okafor

  • Evaluation

    ICLR 2026

    Adversarial Evaluation for Coding Capabilities

    A targeted red-team test bank for code-generation models — and what it reveals about benchmark headroom.

    Mar, 2026.

    R. Patel, J. Costa, N. Adeyemi

  • Data

    Preference Data Quality, Audited

    How preference annotations drift between batches and what a publishable audit trail looks like in practice.

    Feb, 2026.

    S. Okafor, M. Larsen

Four streams, one published methodology.

  1. 01

    Stream

    AI research

    Agent scaffolding, long-horizon planning and the production patterns that make them survive contact with deployment.

    • Long-horizon agent design
    • Synthetic execution traces
    • Tool-use and retrieval orchestration
  2. 02

    Stream

    Data research

    Sourcing, labelling and curation methodology — written by the same operators running the pipelines.

    • Expert vs. crowd annotation
    • Preference data audit trails
    • Synthetic generation provenance
  3. 03

    Stream

    Multimodal research

    Cross-modal training mixes and annotation protocols across text, image, video and audio.

    • Multimodal instruction tuning
    • Temporal grounding for video
    • Cross-modal alignment evaluation
  4. 04

    Stream

    Evaluation research

    Benchmarks, rubrics and adversarial probes — designed to grade what production actually exposes.

    • Compositional agent grading
    • Rubric drift over long trajectories
    • Adversarial test bank design

What we're building with, and what's on the bench.

Collaborations

  • Frontier Lab — undisclosed

    Co-authored evaluation methodology shipped alongside a frontier model release.

    Frontier lab

  • Sovereign AI initiative — EU

    Methodology partnership covering multilingual annotation and audit standards.

    Sovereign research

  • ETH Zürich — DS3Lab

    Joint research on synthetic data provenance and reproducibility tooling.

    Academic

  • An AI-native enterprise partner

    Production deployment of evaluation harnesses against an internal coding-agent fleet.

    Industry

Ongoing services

  • Multi-rubric grader for tool-use agents

    Evaluation research
    In progressQ4 2026
  • Cross-lingual preference data benchmarks

    Data research
    Pre-releaseQ3 2026
  • Long-context multimodal training mix

    Multimodal research
    In progressQ1 2027
  • Open methodology note on annotator calibration

    Data research
    ScopingQ4 2026

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  1. I.

    Written by operators

    Every paper, report and methodology note is authored by the same teams running the production pipelines they describe. No detached commentary, no consulting layer.

  2. II.

    Reproducible by design

    Reproduction artifacts — datasets, rubrics, harnesses, prompts — ship with every publication where the licensing allows. What we write up is what we ran.

  3. III.

    Feeds back into production

    Methodology notes return upstream into Collection and Annotation rubrics before they reach a paper. The loop tightens with every release cycle.

  • Publications, YTD

    Papers, technical reports and whitepapers across all streams.

  • Cadence

    Public publication cadence; internal methodology notes monthly.

  • Co-authored

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