title: TextArena
summary: TextArena is an open-source collection of competitive text-based games for
  training and evaluation of agentic behavior in Large Language Models (LLMs). It
  spans 57+ unique environments (including single-player, two-player, and
  multi-player setups) and allows for easy evaluation of model capabilities via
  an online-play system (against humans and other submitted models) with
  real-time TrueSkill scores. Traditional benchmarks rarely assess dynamic social
  skills such as negotiation, theory of mind, and deception, creating a gap that
  TextArena addresses. Designed with research, community and extensibility in
  mind, TextArena emphasizes ease of adding new games, adapting the framework,
  testing models, playing against the models, and training models. Detailed
  documentation of environments, games, leaderboard, and examples are available
  on https://github.com/LeonGuertler/TextArena and https://www.textarena.ai/.
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paper_title: TextArena
paper_summary: TextArena is an open-source collection of competitive text-based games for
  training and evaluation of agentic behavior in Large Language Models (LLMs). It
  spans 57+ unique environments (including single-player, two-player, and
  multi-player setups) and allows for easy evaluation of model capabilities via
  an online-play system (against humans and other submitted models) with
  real-time TrueSkill scores. Traditional benchmarks rarely assess dynamic social
  skills such as negotiation, theory of mind, and deception, creating a gap that
  TextArena addresses. Designed with research, community and extensibility in
  mind, TextArena emphasizes ease of adding new games, adapting the framework,
  testing models, playing against the models, and training models. Detailed
  documentation of environments, games, leaderboard, and examples are available
  on https://github.com/LeonGuertler/TextArena and https://www.textarena.ai/.
paper_ai_summary: TextArena is an open-source collection of competitive text-based games designed to evaluate dynamic social skills and agentic behavior in Large Language Models (LLMs).
paper_ai_keywords: Large Language Models agentic behavior TrueSkill scores social skills negotiation theory of mind deception online-play system