agentdrive-mcq-eval
AgentDrive: An Open Benchmark Dataset for Agentic AI Reasoning with LLM-Generated Scenarios in Autonomous Systems — Ferrag et al. (2026) (arXiv:2601.16964, 2026)
What this evaluates
Evaluates large language models' context-sensitive reasoning and decision-making capabilities in autonomous driving scenarios. It probes physics-based calculations, policy compliance, risk interpretation, and maneuver optimization through multiple-choice questions derived from structured driving simulations.
Datasets
- AgentDrive-MCQ — total 100000; splits: test (2000); repo https://github.com/maferrag/AgentDrive
Metrics
accuracy(primary) — range: percent- Percentage of correctly answered multiple-choice questions. Calculated as (number of correct predictions / total number of questions) * 100.
Input / output format
Input: A natural language description of a driving scenario (10-12 sentences) followed by a reasoning-intensive multiple-choice question with four candidate answers.
Output: A single selected answer choice (e.g., A, B, C, or D) corresponding to the correct option.
Scoring recipe
correct = 0
for pred, gold in zip(predictions, gold_answers):
if pred.strip().upper() == gold.strip().upper():
correct += 1
accuracy = (correct / len(predictions)) * 100
Common pitfalls
- Models are evaluated with deterministic decoding (temperature=0.0), which may disadvantage reasoning-focused models that typically benefit from higher temperature sampling.
- The benchmark only scores the final selected answer choice, ignoring the quality or correctness of the model-generated rationale, even though rationales are part of the prompt/output structure.
Evidence (verbatim from paper)
We introduce AgentDrive-MCQ, a benchmark designed to probe the reasoning and decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) when deployed as agentic controllers in autonomous driving. TABLE V: Accuracy (%) results of 50 examined LLM reasoning models evaluated across multiple reasoning styles using 2k samples from AgentDrive-MCQ.
Citation
@misc{ferrag2026agentdrive,
title={AgentDrive: An Open Benchmark Dataset for Agentic AI Reasoning with LLM-Generated Scenarios in Autonomous Systems},
author={Ferrag et al. (2026)},
year={2026},
note={arXiv:2601.16964}
}
- arXiv: 2601.16964