ResearchResearch paperMLOps, Tooling & Infrastructure · Evaluation & Benchmarks · Reinforcement Learning1 source · Oct 10, 2026

FDE-Bench: Evaluating End-to-End Delivery from Underspecified Real-World Business Requests

We introduce FDE-Bench, the first benchmark built from real customer projects to evaluate agents on end-to-end delivery tasks that require interactive requirement clarification and iterative optimization.

Key points

  • Real-world business requests often leave key requirements unstated because frontline practitioners struggle to articulate rules they know from experience.
  • Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) must elicit these requirements through dialogue and iteratively optimize solutions until they meet customer acceptance criteria.
  • Existing optimization benchmarks typically start from explicit objectives, while clarification benchmarks often introduce information gaps into existing tasks.
  • Agents elicit missing requirements from a simulated customer, and case-specific evaluators assess final artifacts against acceptance criteria using customer-accepted FDE solutions as quality references.

Sources (1)

  • [1]FDE-Bench: Evaluating End-to-End Delivery from Underspecified Real-World Business Requests
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 10, 03:53 AM
    We introduce FDE-Bench, the first benchmark built from real customer projects to evaluate agents on end-to-end delivery tasks that require interactive requirement clarification and iterative optimization.
    Real-world business requests often leave key requirements unstated because frontline practitioners struggle to articulate rules they know from experience.

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