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+title: >-
+  stadion — a proving ground for operational decisions
+message: >-
+  If you use stadion in work you publish, please cite it using this entry.
+abstract: >-
+  An evaluation harness for agents on operational decision tasks. Each task ships two reference arms: the tuned classical method and the optimum computed by dynamic programming. A score is reported with a confidence interval and placed on that scale, so a result is expressed as a distance from the best achievable outcome rather than as a leaderboard position.
+authors:
+  - family-names: Drobyshev
+    given-names: Denis
+repository-code: https://github.com/DrobyshevDev/stadion
+url: https://github.com/DrobyshevDev/stadion
+license: MIT
+keywords:
+  - agent-evaluation
+  - benchmark
+  - reinforcement-learning
+  - operations-research
+  - llm-agents