arXiv:2506.13992cs.LGcs.AI2025-06EMNLP被引 9

测试大模型如何利用外部领域知识做数据科学,发现它们常盲目采纳错误信息。

AssistedDS: Benchmarking How External Domain Knowledge Assists LLMs in Automated Data Science

  • 设计新基准AssistedDS,用真实和合成数据+专家文档评估模型对领域知识的使用能力。
  • 模型在引入错误信息时性能显著下降,且好建议难以抵消坏信息影响。
  • 适合研究自动化数据科学、大模型知识推理与鲁棒性的人参考。

大型语言模型(LLMs)推动了数据科学流程的自动化,但其能否像人类数据科学家一样批判性地利用外部领域知识尚不明确。为此,我们提出AssistedDS(辅助数据科学)基准,系统评估LLMs在表格预测任务中处理领域知识的能力。该基准包含具有明确生成机制的合成数据集和真实的Kaggle竞赛数据集,每项均配有精心整理的有益与有害文档,涵盖数据清洗、特征工程和模型选择等领域的具体见解。我们评估了前沿LLMs在识别并应用有益信息与规避有害信息方面的表现,考察提交有效性、信息召回率及预测性能。结果表明:(1) 模型常无批判性地采纳提供信息,当引入有害内容时预测性能显著下降;(2) 有益指导往往无法抵消有害信息的负面影响;(3) 在Kaggle数据集上,模型常在处理时间序列数据、跨分层一致特征工程及类别变量解释上出错。这些发现揭示了当前模型在批判性评估和有效利用专家知识方面存在显著差距,凸显了构建更鲁棒、具备知识感知能力的自动化数据科学系统的重要研究方向。数据与代码已公开于https://github.com/jeremyxianx/Assisted-DS。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced the automation of data science workflows. Yet it remains unclear whether they can critically leverage external domain knowledge as human data scientists do in practice. To answer this question, we introduce AssistedDS (Assisted Data Science), a benchmark designed to systematically evaluate how LLMs handle domain knowledge in tabular prediction tasks. AssistedDS features both synthetic datasets with explicitly known generative mechanisms and real-world Kaggle competitions, each accompanied by curated bundles of helpful and adversarial documents. These documents provide domain-specific insights into data cleaning, feature engineering, and model selection. We assess state-of-the-art LLMs on their ability to discern and apply beneficial versus harmful domain knowledge, evaluating submission validity, information recall, and predictive performance. Our results demonstrate three key findings: (1) LLMs frequently exhibit an uncritical adoption of provided information, significantly impairing their predictive performance when adversarial content is introduced, (2) helpful guidance is often insufficient to counteract the negative influence of adversarial information, and (3) in Kaggle datasets, LLMs often make errors in handling time-series data, applying consistent feature engineering across different folds, and interpreting categorical variables correctly. These findings highlight a substantial gap in current models' ability to critically evaluate and leverage expert knowledge, underscoring an essential research direction for developing more robust, knowledge-aware automated data science systems. Our data and code are publicly available here: https://github.com/jeremyxianx/Assisted-DS

大模型数据科学领域知识基准测试

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