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New benchmark tests LLMs on relative urban activity comparisons

Researchers have developed a new benchmark called URBANCONTRASTIVEQA to evaluate how well tool-augmented large language models can understand relative urban activity. The benchmark presents pairs of urban situations from public mobility data in New York City, Chicago, and Seattle, asking models to determine which scenario is more abnormal relative to its local historical baseline, rather than just picking the larger raw count. Results show that models often struggle with this comparative task when only given raw counts, but accuracy improves when baseline scores and ordinal labels are provided, though gains vary by model. AI

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New benchmark tests LLMs on relative urban activity comparisons

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Christan Grant ·

    Measuring Decision-Scale Use in Tool-Augmented LLMs: A Contrastive Urban Benchmark

    Urban decision-support often asks whether activity is unusually high or low for a specific place, not which place has the larger raw count. Twenty pickups in a quiet neighborhood can be more abnormal than 180 at an airport. We introduce URBANCONTRASTIVEQA, a benchmark that asks w…