New Benchmark Released for AI-Generated Building Information Specifications
Researchers have released Ishigaki-IDS-Bench, the first public benchmark for evaluating how well large language models can generate Information Delivery Specifications (IDS) from building information requirements. IDS is a specialized XML format used in construction projects to formalize information requirements in a machine-checkable way, requiring expertise in Industry Foundation Classes vocabulary. The benchmark reveals significant challenges, with even the best-performing models achieving only 65.6% accuracy on content fidelity and 33.1% on formal validity checks.
Researchers have introduced Ishigaki-IDS-Bench, a new benchmark dataset designed to evaluate large language models' ability to generate Information Delivery Specifications from Building Information Modeling (BIM) requirements. The benchmark contains 166 examples across 83 practical scenarios in Japanese and English, created by six BIM/IDS experts and paired with gold-standard IDS files. Evaluation uses two metrics: formal validity checked by buildingSMART's IDSAuditTool and content fidelity measured by facet-level macro-F1 scores. Testing across 10 LLMs in zero-shot settings showed GPT-5.5 achieved the highest facet F1 score of 65.6%, while Claude Opus 4.5 achieved the highest content pass rate of 33.1%. The benchmark and evaluation code have been released publicly on Hugging Face and Zenodo under open licenses.
What's missing
The study does not discuss potential limitations of the benchmark design itself, such as whether 166 examples across 83 scenarios is sufficient for robust model evaluation, or whether the bilingual (Japanese/English) composition may introduce language-specific biases. Additionally, the paper does not address whether the zero-shot evaluation setting reflects realistic use cases where domain experts might provide few-shot examples or iterative feedback.
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Ishigaki-IDS-Bench: A Benchmark for Generating Information Delivery Specification from BIM Information Requirements
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