Papers by Sumanth Balaji
Beyond IVR: Benchmarking Customer Support LLM Agents for Business-Adherence (2026.eacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus on tool usage or task completion, overlooking an agent’s capacity to adhere to multi-step policies, navigate task dependencies, and remain robust to unpredictable user or environment behavior. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess policy-aware agents in customer support using a dynamic-prompt agent and a static-promped agent that explicitly models policy control. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark assesses agent's ability to adhere to multi-step policies, navigate task dependencies, and remain robust to unpredictable user or environment behavior. |