Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation

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Main Authors: Hu, Mengkang, Chen, Tianxing, Zou, Yude, Lei, Yuheng, Chen, Qiguang, Li, Ming, Mu, Yao, Zhang, Hongyuan, Shao, Wenqi, Luo, Ping
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author Hu, Mengkang
Chen, Tianxing
Zou, Yude
Lei, Yuheng
Chen, Qiguang
Li, Ming
Mu, Yao
Zhang, Hongyuan
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
author_facet Hu, Mengkang
Chen, Tianxing
Zou, Yude
Lei, Yuheng
Chen, Qiguang
Li, Ming
Mu, Yao
Zhang, Hongyuan
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
contents Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate symbolic world models from textual descriptions. Although LLMs have been extensively explored in the context of world modeling, prior studies encountered several challenges, including evaluation randomness, dependence on indirect metrics, and a limited domain scope. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel benchmark, Text2World, based on planning domain definition language (PDDL), featuring hundreds of diverse domains and employing multi-criteria, execution-based metrics for a more robust evaluation. We benchmark current LLMs using Text2World and find that reasoning models trained with large-scale reinforcement learning outperform others. However, even the best-performing model still demonstrates limited capabilities in world modeling. Building on these insights, we examine several promising strategies to enhance the world modeling capabilities of LLMs, including test-time scaling, agent training, and more. We hope that Text2World can serve as a crucial resource, laying the groundwork for future research in leveraging LLMs as world models. The project page is available at https://text-to-world.github.io/.
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spellingShingle Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation
Hu, Mengkang
Chen, Tianxing
Zou, Yude
Lei, Yuheng
Chen, Qiguang
Li, Ming
Mu, Yao
Zhang, Hongyuan
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate symbolic world models from textual descriptions. Although LLMs have been extensively explored in the context of world modeling, prior studies encountered several challenges, including evaluation randomness, dependence on indirect metrics, and a limited domain scope. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel benchmark, Text2World, based on planning domain definition language (PDDL), featuring hundreds of diverse domains and employing multi-criteria, execution-based metrics for a more robust evaluation. We benchmark current LLMs using Text2World and find that reasoning models trained with large-scale reinforcement learning outperform others. However, even the best-performing model still demonstrates limited capabilities in world modeling. Building on these insights, we examine several promising strategies to enhance the world modeling capabilities of LLMs, including test-time scaling, agent training, and more. We hope that Text2World can serve as a crucial resource, laying the groundwork for future research in leveraging LLMs as world models. The project page is available at https://text-to-world.github.io/.
title Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13092