Zhikai Pan
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Do LLMs Build World Models From Text? A Multilingual Diagnostic of Spatial Reasoning
The paper introduces a multilingual benchmark (MentalMap) to test if LLMs build internal spatial world models from text, finding a universal 'L3 reasoning cliff' suggesting that text-only working memory is the primary bottleneck.
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cs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026
Do LLMs Build World Models From Text? A Multilingual Diagnostic of Spatial Reasoning
Zhikai Pan, Chih-Ting Liao, Chunrui Liu, Xi Xiao +4 more
The paper introduces a multilingual benchmark (MentalMap) to test if LLMs build internal spatial world models from text, finding a universal 'L3 reasoning cliff' suggesting that text-only working memo…
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