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New FirmCORe benchmark tests LLMs on inter-firm collaboration reasoning

Researchers have introduced FirmCORe, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to identify and reason about collaboration opportunities between companies. The benchmark consists of 2,805 labeled firm pairs, assessing not only the detection of potential collaborations but also their strength, type, and role direction. Initial experiments with various LLMs demonstrated that while models can detect opportunities with a 74.51% macro-F1 score, their performance drops significantly when identifying specific collaboration details, achieving only a 61.57% exact match across all output fields. The benchmark also includes parallel Chinese and English evaluation sets to analyze language sensitivity. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive improvements in LLMs' ability to understand complex business relationships and facilitate strategic partnerships.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tian Du, Tiantong Wu, Yafei Wang, Mengyu Liu, Xingyan Chen, Mu Wang ·

    FirmCORe: A Benchmark for Structured Reasoning about Inter-Firm Collaboration Opportunities

    arXiv:2609.17128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive structured data on inter-firm relationships is often scarce or inaccessible because many relationships are privately negotiated, selectively disclosed, and fragmented across proprietary databases. This scarcity hinders…