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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: multilingual Agent evaluation should measure action policy, not just the final answer.

Microsoft Research says multilingual Agent evaluations often compare only final answers and discard trajectories; the paper uses action policy as the metric, covering 8 models, 6 parallel benchmarks, 41 languages, and 2.38M rollouts, and analyzes five types of confounding factors.

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2026-08-13

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Microsoft Research says multilingual Agent evaluations often compare only final answers and discard trajectories; the paper uses action policy as the metric, covering 8 models, 6 parallel benchmarks, 41 languages, and 2.38M rollouts, and analyzes five types of confounding factors.

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