EdgeBench: Unveiling Scaling Laws of Learning from Real-World Environments

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EdgeBench analyzes 38,000 hours of real-world agent interactions across 134 tasks, revealing log-sigmoid scaling laws for performance and exponential learning speed improvements. The paper introduces a benchmark suite for studying how agents learn from real-world experience.

Pretraining scaling laws reveal that model capability improves predictably with data and compute. But learning from real world environments after deployment remains far less understood. Analyzing roughly 38,000 hours of agent interaction with the environment across 134 real world tasks, we find, to the best of our knowledge, the first evidence that overall performance during environment learning follows a log-sigmoid scaling law with remarkably high precision, reaching R^2 = 0.998. Across model generations, we also find that agent learning speed roughly doubles every three months. This discovery stems from EdgeBench, a suite of 134 real world tasks with ultra-long horizons, spanning scientific discovery, software engineering, combinatorial optimization, professional knowledge work, formal mathematics, and interactive games. Each task sustains at least 12 hours of continuous agent operation under rich, multilevel feedback, and is built through substantial expert effort. We publicly release 51 tasks and our full evaluation framework to accelerate the study of how agents learn from real world experience.
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Abstract

Analysis of 38,000 hours of real-world agent interactions reveals log-sigmoid scaling laws for performance and exponential learning speed improvements across 134 diverse tasks.

Pretrainingscaling lawsreveal that model capability improves predictably with data and compute. But learning from real world environments after deployment remains far less understood. Analyzing roughly 38,000 hours ofagent interactionwith the environment across 134real world tasks, we find, to the best of our knowledge, the first evidence that overall performance duringenvironment learningfollows alog-sigmoid scaling lawwith remarkably high precision, reaching R^2 = 0.998. Across model generations, we also find that agent learning speed roughly doubles every three months. This discovery stems fromEdgeBench, a suite of 134real world taskswith ultra-long horizons, spanning scientific discovery, software engineering, combinatorial optimization, professional knowledge work, formal mathematics, and interactive games. Each task sustains at least 12 hours of continuous agent operation under rich,multilevel feedback, and is built through substantial expert effort. We publicly release 51 tasks and our full evaluation framework to accelerate the study of how agents learn from real world experience.

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