ShopGym, SimGym and SimPersona: papers build shopping-agent sims grounded in real-world data
sarahcat21 · x · 2026-10-07
The author dug up and shared three related research projects, noting the original thread "buried the lede":
- ShopGym: simulation environments grounded in real-world online shops for training and evaluating shopping agents
- SimGym: companion simulation environments with synthetic task creation
- SimPersona: user personas grounded in real-world data
The shared thesis: anchor sim environments, personas, and synthetic tasks in real-world data rather than purely synthetic setups, improving ecological validity for agent training and evaluation. Worth a deep dive for anyone in agent evals or e-commerce agents.
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