Canonical paper record

EAU
arXiv:2610.16523

EAU: Environment-Agent-User Co-evolution for Training User-Centric Agents is a meta-agent framework for user-centric agents.

It adapts a hybrid user simulator, environment feedback, reward design, and RL configuration within and across runs. Evaluation covers UserGym, ColBench, and τ²-bench with Qwen3-4B and Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.

Official project site: eau-meta-agent.github.io.

01 / Authors and affiliations

A six-author
collaboration.

Min Cai — University of Alberta; Dan Zhang — National University of Singapore; Gao Xing and Libin Ma — Kuaishou Technology; Zhaohui Xu — Independent Researcher; Xi Ye — University of Alberta and Amii.

02 / Reported evidence

Benchmarks and
results.

On Qwen3-4B, EAU reports 0.623 on UserGym, 0.600 ColBench task success, and 0.627 overall. The ColBench task-success result is a 36.7% relative gain over InfoPO under the paper’s protocol.

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