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New ListQA benchmark tests LLMs on multi-fact retrieval

Researchers have introduced ListQA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to retrieve and organize factual information into lists. The benchmark comprises over 9,000 human-curated questions that require models to recall multiple facts, with an audited error rate of 1.7%. Initial testing on 34 models revealed that even the best-performing models struggle with multi-faceted questions and retrieving facts solely from their parameters, though providing source documents like Wikipedia pages significantly improves performance. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive improvements in LLM's ability to handle complex, multi-part factual queries, enhancing their utility in knowledge-intensive applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic benchmark for evaluating LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New ListQA benchmark tests LLMs on multi-fact retrieval

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mayank Kulkarni, Rakesh Vaideeswaran ·

    ListQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating List-Formatted Factual Knowledge Retrieval in Large Language Models

    arXiv:2610.19165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world questions demand not a single fact but an organized collection of them, yet existing factual knowledge benchmarks almost exclusively target single answer retrieval. We introduce ListQA, a benchmark of 9,045 human-c…