aiqbench analysis
The Mini Amusement Parks benchmark exposes critical gaps in current AI agents regarding long-horizon planning and spatial reasoning within complex business simulations. By unifying these challenges into a single grounded environment, this research provides an essential new foundation for evaluating adaptable decision-making capabilities beyond narrow tasks. This work directly advances the field of machine learning by highlighting where state-of-the-art models still lag significantly behind human performance in open-ended optimization scenarios.
Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs): A Testbed for Modelling Business Decisions
arXiv:2511.15830v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid progress in artificial intelligence, current systems struggle with the interconnected challenges that define real-world decision making. Practical domains such as business management require open-ended optimization, actively learning environment dynamics from sparse experience, planning over long horizons in stochastic settings, and reasoning over spatial information. Yet no existing human--AI benchmarks assess how well agents integrate these challenges in a grounded decision-making context. To this end, we introduce Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs), an amusement-park simulator designed to evaluate an agent's ability to model its environment, anticipate long-term consequences under uncertainty, and strategically operate a complex business. We provide expert human performance and a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art agents, finding experts outperform these systems by 11.4x on easy mode and 15.3x on medium mode. Our analysis reveals persistent weaknesses in long-horizon planning, sample-efficient learning, spatial reasoning, and modelling uncertainty. By unifying these challenges within a single environment, MAPs offers a new foundation for benchmarking agents capable of adaptable decision making. Code: https://github.com/Skyfall-Research/MAPs
Abstract:Despite rapid progress in artificial intelligence, current systems struggle with the interconnected challenges that define real-world decision making. Practical domains such as business management require open-ended optimization, actively learning environment dynamics from sparse experience, planning over long horizons in stochastic settings, and reasoning over spatial information. Yet no existing human--AI benchmarks assess how well agents integrate these challenges in a grounded decision-making context. To this end, we introduce Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs), an amusement-park simulator designed to evaluate an agent's ability to model its environment, anticipate long-term consequences under uncertainty, and strategically operate a complex business. We provide expert human performance and a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art agents, finding experts outperform these systems by 11.4x on easy mode and 15.3x on medium mode. Our analysis reveals persistent weaknesses in long-horizon planning, sample-efficient learning, spatial reasoning, and modelling uncertainty. By unifying these challenges within a single environment, MAPs offers a new foundation for benchmarking agents capable of adaptable decision making. Code: this https URL
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2511.15830 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2511.15830v3 [cs.AI] for this version)
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