HoosierHelp: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Social Service Navigation
Quick summary
arXiv:2608.09946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social service navigation requires connecting help-seeking individuals to resources that satisfy their needs and specific constraints. Although LLM agents offer a promising interface for conversational resource navigation, existing benchmarks do not capture the interaction complexity and constraint-grounding demands of this setting. We introduce HoosierHelp, an interactive benchmark grounded in 3,971 Indiana public social service resources. Agents interact with simulated users, issue structured resource-search calls, handle non-ideal interactio
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.09946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social service navigation requires connecting help-seeking individuals to resources that satisfy their needs and specific constraints.
- Although LLM agents offer a promising interface for conversational resource navigation, existing benchmarks do not capture the interaction complexity and constraint-grounding demands of this setting.
- We introduce HoosierHelp, an interactive benchmark grounded in 3,971 Indiana public social service resources.
Why it matters
“HoosierHelp: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Social Service Navigation” highlights the need for repeatable measurement rather than a single impressive demonstration. Independent validation across datasets and clearly stated limitations determine whether a result can guide product decisions.

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