AgentSynth: Scalable Task Generation for Generalist Computer-Use Agents
Jingxu Xie, Dylan Xu, Xuandong Zhao, Dawn Song
Abstract
We introduce AgentSynth, a scalable and cost-efficient pipeline for automatically synthesizing high-quality tasks and trajectory datasets for generalist computer-use agents. Leveraging information asymmetry, AgentSynth constructs subtasks that are simple during generation but significantly more challenging when composed into long-horizon tasks, enabling the creation of over 6,000 diverse and realistic tasks. A key strength of AgentSynth is its ability to precisely modulate task complexity by varying the number of subtasks. Empirical evaluations show that state-of-the-art LLM agents suffer a steep performance drop, from 18% success at difficulty level 1 to just 4% at level 6, highlighting the benchmark's difficulty and discriminative power. Moreover, our pipeline achieves a low average cost of $0.60 per trajectory, orders of magnitude cheaper than human annotations. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/sunblaze-ucb/AgentSynth
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