cua-speedrun:计算机使用代理速度标准化评测
cua-speedrun: Standardized Benchmarking of the Speed of Computer-Use Agents
研究人员发布cua-speedrun基准,解决了CUA评测的可复现性问题,发现了一些反直觉的效率规律。
cua-speedrun引入标准化基础设施和任务集,专注于评估计算机使用代理(CUA)的速度和效率。该研究使用统一虚拟机设置和执行管道,在四个不同CUA基准上评估推理努力、代理工具和环境延迟对性能的影响。研究发现没有单一模型在性能、速度和成本三方面都最优,部分模型增加推理努力反而能加速任务完成。
cua-speedrun: Standardized Benchmarking of the Speed of Computer-Use Agents
Computer use agents (CUAs), which use graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to complete tasks on a computer, have recently surpassed human performance on many standard benchmarks, including difficult long-horizon tasks. Their capabilities are undoubtedly impressive, however, a key barrier to the widespread adoption and deployment of CUAs remains their speed and cost. Progress towards faster yet capable CUAs requires reliable evaluation of their speed, but many CUA benchmarks currently face a reproducibility crisis. Benchmarks are based on complex infrastructure with varying machine and container configurations that confound the evaluation of the execution speed of CUAs. Towards addressing this gap, we propose cua-speedrun, which introduces standardized infrastructure and task sets, with a focus on evaluating the speed and efficiency of CUAs. cua-speedrun uses a uniform virtual machine setup and execution pipeline, along with a common agent interface that enables single-agent implementations to operate seamlessly across different benchmarks. Across four different CUA benchmarks, we evaluate how reasoning effort, agent harnesses, and environment latency affect performance, speed, and cost. We find no single model family is optimal for all three; none of the open-weight models are on the frontier, and also, unintuitively, for some models increasing the reasoning effort can speed up task completion, while faster environment input-output can slow down overall task completion time. We also demonstrate that we can effectively reduce the evaluation task set of most CUA benchmarks without degrading overall statistical power, allowing for more efficient benchmarking and comparison. We believe cua-speedrun will enable structured progress towards fast, efficient CUAs, unlocking new real-world use cases and applications. All code, infrastructure, and analysis are available at https://cuaspeedrun.com.