You Know What I Mean: A Benchmark for Agentic Conversational Reference Grounding

arXiv:2608.29834 · cs.CL, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

Code: https://github.com/karenShaked/RepoRef-Benchmark

Terminology

• Benchmark — 35× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 28× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifier — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Workflows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• TREC CAsT 2019: The Conversational Assistance Track Overview
• ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
• REAgent: Requirement-Driven LLM Agents for Software Issue Resolution
• API-Bank: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tool-Augmented LLMs
• OBLIQ-Bench: Exposing Overlooked Bottlenecks in Modern Retrievers with Latent and Implicit Queries
• PaperArena: An Evaluation Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Agentic Reasoning on Scientific Literature
• OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
• TheAgentCompany: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real World Tasks
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

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