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WorldBench: Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multilingual Agents

arXiv cs.AI LLM Agents Leonardo Ranaldi, Sherrie Shen, Jushi Kai, Alexandra Birch 2026-09-01

TL;DR - WorldBench is a multilingual benchmark of 1,600 culturally and persona-grounded workflows for evaluating agents in sandboxed environments. Frontier models achieve only 49.2% Constrained Task Success, exposing brittleness in long-horizon tasks and preserving environment state.

  • Covers seven languages and eight cultures, with tasks refined by language- and culture-specific human annotators.
  • Evaluates realistic multi-step workflows through structured actions in sandboxed environments.
  • Introduces Constrained Task Success (CTS), combining task completion, minimal modification, and complementary metrics via deterministic and LLM-based judging.
  • All evaluated models show substantial gaps between task correctness and environment preservation.

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