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LLMs show consistent overconfidence in GIS research tasks

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A new benchmark called GIScholarBench has been developed to evaluate the overconfidence of large language models in Geographic Information Science (GIS) research. The benchmark, comprising 10,865 papers, tests models on metadata retrieval, literature linking, and research direction generation. Evaluations of Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3, and ChatGPT 5.3 revealed consistent overconfidence across all tasks, manifesting as factual overgeneration, unreliable citation expansion, and overconfidence in output completeness. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical limitation in LLMs for academic research, necessitating improved calibration for reliable use in scholarly tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating LLM performance.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zongrng Li, Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou, Hongxu Ma, Hao Tian, Siqi Zhou, Wenjing Gong, Kaili Zhang, Bingqian Chen, Mitch Zhang, Yifan Yang ·

    GIScholarBench: Benchmarking LLM Overconfidence in GIS Research

    arXiv:2606.08036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in academic research workflows, but scholarly tasks require high factual precision and therefore expose a key weakness: overconfidence. Here, overconfidence is defined behaviorall…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yifan Yang ·

    GIScholarBench: Benchmarking LLM Overconfidence in GIS Research

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in academic research workflows, but scholarly tasks require high factual precision and therefore expose a key weakness: overconfidence. Here, overconfidence is defined behaviorally as the tendency to produce confident, assertive,…

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