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LLMs vs. Optimization: AI Struggles, Teams Excel - New CO-Bench Benchmark Reveals Gaps

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Overview

  • CO-Bench evaluates language model (LLM) agents in combinatorial optimization
  • First benchmark measuring LLM agents' algorithm design capabilities
  • Tests agents across 3 tasks: code improvement, algorithm ranking, and scratch coding
  • Evaluates 4 LLMs: GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, and Llama 3
  • Results show LLMs struggle with algorithm design but demonstrate reasoning capabilities
  • Multi-agent collaboration improves performance across all tasks

Plain English Explanation

CO-Bench is a new testing framework that measures how well AI language models can solve complex optimization problems - the kind computers typically struggle with. Think of problems like finding the shortest route through multiple cities or scheduling deliveries efficiently.

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