RecoAtlas C
AI benchmark · Agentic
Full listing name: RecoAtlas: From Semantic Plausibility to Set-Level Utility in LLM Recommendation Agents
What is RecoAtlas?
LLM recommendation agents increasingly produce structured recommendation reports: sets of items accompanied by natural-language justifications. Yet existing evaluations often reduce this setting to reranking small shortlisted candidate sets or judge reports mainly by semantic plausibility. We introduce Recommendation Atlas (Agentic Tool-Level Assessment for Shopping), or RecoAtlas, a benchmark and toolkit for evaluating shopping agents with behavior-grounded metrics. RecoAtlas complements held-out interaction metrics with learned utility proxies for relevance, complementarity, and diversity derived from interaction data, while separately measuring semantic coherence and explanation quality. Its controlled tool environment exposes agents to either semantic, behavior-aligned, or faulty tools, enabling diagnosis of whether performance gains arise from stronger reasoning, better signals, or more effective tool-use policies. Across controlled experiments, we show that RecoAtlas exhibits key properties of a meaningful benchmark for agentic systems: performance scales with model capacity and test-time compute, improves with stronger and better-aligned tools, degrades under noisy or misaligned signals, and reveals that semantic plausibility does not necessarily capture behavior-grounded utility. RecoAtlas provides a foundation for developing and evaluating shopping assistants that optimize not only for plausible recommendations, but also for coherent, behaviorally grounded recommendation sets.
Tier C
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