CoArena: Evaluating Computer-Use and Multi-Agent Systems in Real Time
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arXiv:2609.14239 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Sep 2026]
Title:CoArena: Evaluating Computer-Use and Multi-Agent Systems in Real Time
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Abstract:Static benchmarks for computer-use agents fix a task set at release and score every system against it once. That makes them reproducible, and it lets them drift from what they should measure: a fixed task set ages, leaks into training corpora, and cannot follow how people actually use agents from week to week. CoArena measures use directly. Real users submit tasks; two systems, each a single model or a multi-agent pipeline behind the same tool interface, execute the same task concurrently in identical sandboxed desktops; users judge the two outcomes without knowing which system produced them; and a public leaderboard is refit from those judgments. The central contribution is a formal account of what makes such an evaluation real-time. We define real-time as five measurable properties, each with an equation and a worked example: continuous task arrival, live concurrent execution, online rating updates, freshness with contamination resistance, and bounded feedback latency from a failed run to a reusable training environment. The rating methodology follows in full: the Bradley-Terry pairwise model, its likelihood with weighted observations and ties, the penalized maximum-likelihood estimator, and the streaming update applied when a single vote arrives (a stochastic-gradient step on the same likelihood, recovering Elo). It gives confidence intervals from the observed information and a cluster-robust sandwich, rank bands from a parametric bootstrap, the rule by which a new system enters the board, and the convergence rate of the estimate. Vote quality is treated with inter-judge agreement statistics, redundant judging, and explicit handling of ties and abstentions. A five-system example with 211 votes is carried from the vote matrix to ratings, intervals, and rank bands. Every number is derived from stated inputs or labeled illustrative; none is a measurement of a deployed system.
| Comments: | 29 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, 4 algorithm listings. All figures are drawn in TikZ/pgfplots from the source. Project page: this https URL |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.14239 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2609.14239v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.14239
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