Papers by Yuyan Cai
Can LLMs Act as Historians? Evaluating Historical Research Capabilities of LLMs via the Chinese Imperial Examination (2026.acl-long)
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Lirong Gao, Zeqing Wang, Yuyan Cai, Jiayi Deng, Yanmei Gu, Yiming Zhang, Jia Zhou, Yanfei Zhang, Junbo Zhao
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks assess basic knowledge breadth or lexical understanding, failing to capture higher-order skills that are central to historical research. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark anchored in the Chinese Imperial Examination system that assesses historical knowledge and lexical understanding. |
| Outcome: | The new benchmark aims to assess the ability of LLMs to process historical materials and documents. |