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Agents2026-06-18 · source-backed
A new paper proposes training human-user simulators with "Turing rewards" to make synthetic users realistic enough to train and stress-test agent assistants. Realistic user simulation is a real bottleneck. Most of us fall back on brittle scripted personas for agent eval. If this holds up, it's a cheaper synthetic-interaction loop for anyone who can't run large human-in-the-loop studies. (arXiv 2606.19336)
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