Sumin Kang


2025

"The Fifth Spatial Cognition Evaluation (SpaCE2025) presents a benchmark aimed at evaluating the spatial semantic understanding and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models(LLMs), primarily in Chinese.It consists of five subtasks: (1) Retrieving Spatial Referents(RSR), (2) Detecting Spatial Semantic Anomalies (DSA), (3) Recognizing Synonymous SpatialExpression (RSE), (4) Spatial Position Reasoning (SPR) in Chinese, and (5) SPR in English. The fourth and fifth subtask share the same content and structure, differing only in language, and are designed to assess the cross-linguistic spatial reasoning capability of LLMs. A total of 12 teams submitted their final results, and the best-performing team achieved an accuracy of 0.7931. The results suggest that while LLMs are capable of handling basic spatial semantic understanding tasks such as RSR, their performance on more complex tasks, such as DSA and RSE, still re-quires improvement. Additionally, finetuning methods that effectively activate LLMs’ reasoning ability are essential to improve their performance."