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New benchmark reveals LLM agents struggle with operations research tasks

A new benchmark called ORAgentBench has been introduced to evaluate the capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents in performing complex operations research (OR) tasks. The benchmark includes 107 human-reviewed tasks across various operational scenarios, each with specific data, configurations, and submission requirements. Initial experiments using fourteen frontier agent-model configurations revealed that current LLM agents are not yet reliable for practical OR work, with the best-performing agent succeeding on only 35.51% of tasks and struggling with feasibility and solution quality. AI

IMPACT Highlights the current limitations of LLM agents in complex, real-world problem-solving domains like operations research.

RANK_REASON Publication of a new academic benchmark paper on arXiv. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark reveals LLM agents struggle with operations research tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiajun Li, Mingshu Cai, Yixuan Li, Yu Ding, Ran Hou, Guanyu Nie, Xiongwei Han, Wanyuan Wang ·

    ORAgentBench: Can LLM Agents Solve Challenging Operations Research Tasks End to End?

    arXiv:2606.19787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for multi-step tasks in executable environments, yet their ability to perform realistic operations research (OR) work remains unclear. Existing OR evaluations ofte…