Anushrut Gupta
Author directory2026
Can AI Agents Answer Your Data Questions? A Benchmark for Data Agents
Ruiying Ma | Shreya Shankar | Ruiqi Chen | Adit Chintamaneni | Yiming Lin | Sepanta Zeighami | Rajoshi Ghosh | Abhinav Gupta | Anushrut Gupta | Tanmai Gopal | Aditya Parameswaran
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Ruiying Ma | Shreya Shankar | Ruiqi Chen | Adit Chintamaneni | Yiming Lin | Sepanta Zeighami | Rajoshi Ghosh | Abhinav Gupta | Anushrut Gupta | Tanmai Gopal | Aditya Parameswaran
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Users across enterprises increasingly rely on LLM agents to query their data through natural language. However, building reliable data agents remains difficult because real enterprise data is fragmented across many heterogeneous database systems, with duplicated and inconsistent data, and key information often buried in unstructured text—requiring agents to go beyond just writing SQL or data science scripts to answer questions. Existing benchmarks tackle only individual pieces of this end-to-end workflow—e.g., text-to-SQL over a single database—and are increasingly saturated and contaminated. We present a new benchmark for LLM agents, the Data Agent Benchmark (DAB), grounded in a study of enterprises building production data agents across six industries. DAB comprises 104 queries across 17 datasets and 4 database management systems. On DAB, the best state-of-the-art agent achieves only 57% pass@1. We analyze agent failure modes and distill takeaways for future data-agent development. Our benchmark and experiment code are published at [URL redacted for anonymous review].