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New benchmark System1-Arena tests AI decision-making speed vs accuracy

Researchers have introduced System1-Arena, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well AI models can make discrete decisions, distinguishing between "System 1" (fast, probabilistic) and "System 2" (reasoning-based) approaches. The benchmark comprises 92,000 questions across 105 tasks and 138 closed-loop environments, testing models on everything from text classification to complex agentic tasks like robotics and driving. Initial evaluations show that large System 1 models can match or surpass fast closed-source LLMs in accuracy and probability calibration at a fraction of the latency, though generative reasoning models achieve the highest accuracy at a significantly higher cost. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could accelerate the development of more efficient AI decision-making systems by providing a standardized way to compare fast, probabilistic models against slower, reasoning-based ones.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianyu Chen, Xinyang Liu, Ruyi An, Zhendong Wang, Mingyuan Zhou ·

    System1-Arena: Which Decisions Can Be Left to System 1?

    arXiv:2610.21244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often make discrete decisions, such as flagging phishing or escalating to a human. System-1 models, such as Jev and the OpenAI Decisions API, return probabilities over options in a single forward pass,…