Evaluation of LLMs for Process Model Analysis and Optimization

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Main Authors: Kumar, Akhil, Zhao, Jianliang Leon, Dobariya, Om
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author Kumar, Akhil
Zhao, Jianliang Leon
Dobariya, Om
author_facet Kumar, Akhil
Zhao, Jianliang Leon
Dobariya, Om
contents In this paper, we report our experience with several LLMs for their ability to understand a process model in an interactive, conversational style, find syntactical and logical errors in it, and reason with it in depth through a natural language (NL) interface. Our findings show that a vanilla, untrained LLM like ChatGPT (model o3) in a zero-shot setting is effective in understanding BPMN process models from images and answering queries about them intelligently at syntactic, logic, and semantic levels of depth. Further, different LLMs vary in performance in terms of their accuracy and effectiveness. Nevertheless, our empirical analysis shows that LLMs can play a valuable role as assistants for business process designers and users. We also study the LLM's "thought process" and ability to perform deeper reasoning in the context of process analysis and optimization. We find that the LLMs seem to exhibit anthropomorphic properties.
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spellingShingle Evaluation of LLMs for Process Model Analysis and Optimization
Kumar, Akhil
Zhao, Jianliang Leon
Dobariya, Om
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
In this paper, we report our experience with several LLMs for their ability to understand a process model in an interactive, conversational style, find syntactical and logical errors in it, and reason with it in depth through a natural language (NL) interface. Our findings show that a vanilla, untrained LLM like ChatGPT (model o3) in a zero-shot setting is effective in understanding BPMN process models from images and answering queries about them intelligently at syntactic, logic, and semantic levels of depth. Further, different LLMs vary in performance in terms of their accuracy and effectiveness. Nevertheless, our empirical analysis shows that LLMs can play a valuable role as assistants for business process designers and users. We also study the LLM's "thought process" and ability to perform deeper reasoning in the context of process analysis and optimization. We find that the LLMs seem to exhibit anthropomorphic properties.
title Evaluation of LLMs for Process Model Analysis and Optimization
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07489