LLM-BABYBENCH: Understanding and Evaluating Grounded Planning and Reasoning in LLMs

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Autores principales: Choukrani, Omar, Malek, Idriss, Orel, Daniil, Xie, Zhuohan, Iklassov, Zangir, Takáč, Martin, Lahlou, Salem
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author Choukrani, Omar
Malek, Idriss
Orel, Daniil
Xie, Zhuohan
Iklassov, Zangir
Takáč, Martin
Lahlou, Salem
author_facet Choukrani, Omar
Malek, Idriss
Orel, Daniil
Xie, Zhuohan
Iklassov, Zangir
Takáč, Martin
Lahlou, Salem
contents Assessing the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to plan and reason within the constraints of interactive environments is crucial for developing capable AI agents. We introduce $\textbf{LLM-BabyBench}$, a new benchmark suite designed specifically for this purpose. Built upon a textual adaptation of the procedurally generated BabyAI grid world, this suite evaluates LLMs on three fundamental aspects of grounded intelligence: (1) predicting the consequences of actions on the environment state ($\textbf{Predict}$ task), (2) generating sequences of low-level actions to achieve specified objectives ($\textbf{Plan}$ task), and (3) decomposing high-level instructions into coherent subgoal sequences ($\textbf{Decompose}$ task). We detail the methodology for generating the three corresponding datasets ($\texttt{LLM-BabyBench-Predict}$, $\texttt{-Plan}$, $\texttt{-Decompose}$) by extracting structured information from an expert agent operating within the text-based environment. Furthermore, we provide a standardized evaluation harness and metrics, including environment interaction for validating generated plans, to facilitate reproducible assessment of diverse LLMs. Initial baseline results highlight the challenges posed by these grounded reasoning tasks. The benchmark suite, datasets, data generation code, and evaluation code are made publicly available ($\href{https://github.com/choukrani/llm-babybench}{\text{GitHub}}$, $\href{https://huggingface.co/datasets/salem-mbzuai/LLM-BabyBench}{\text{HuggingFace}}$).
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spellingShingle LLM-BABYBENCH: Understanding and Evaluating Grounded Planning and Reasoning in LLMs
Choukrani, Omar
Malek, Idriss
Orel, Daniil
Xie, Zhuohan
Iklassov, Zangir
Takáč, Martin
Lahlou, Salem
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Assessing the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to plan and reason within the constraints of interactive environments is crucial for developing capable AI agents. We introduce $\textbf{LLM-BabyBench}$, a new benchmark suite designed specifically for this purpose. Built upon a textual adaptation of the procedurally generated BabyAI grid world, this suite evaluates LLMs on three fundamental aspects of grounded intelligence: (1) predicting the consequences of actions on the environment state ($\textbf{Predict}$ task), (2) generating sequences of low-level actions to achieve specified objectives ($\textbf{Plan}$ task), and (3) decomposing high-level instructions into coherent subgoal sequences ($\textbf{Decompose}$ task). We detail the methodology for generating the three corresponding datasets ($\texttt{LLM-BabyBench-Predict}$, $\texttt{-Plan}$, $\texttt{-Decompose}$) by extracting structured information from an expert agent operating within the text-based environment. Furthermore, we provide a standardized evaluation harness and metrics, including environment interaction for validating generated plans, to facilitate reproducible assessment of diverse LLMs. Initial baseline results highlight the challenges posed by these grounded reasoning tasks. The benchmark suite, datasets, data generation code, and evaluation code are made publicly available ($\href{https://github.com/choukrani/llm-babybench}{\text{GitHub}}$, $\href{https://huggingface.co/datasets/salem-mbzuai/LLM-BabyBench}{\text{HuggingFace}}$).
title LLM-BABYBENCH: Understanding and Evaluating Grounded Planning and Reasoning in LLMs
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12135