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InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation

Résumé

Data analytics is essential for extracting valuable insights from data that can assist organizations in making effective decisions. We introduce InsightBench, a benchmark dataset with three key features. First, it consists of 100 datasets representing diverse business use cases such as finance and incident management, each accompanied by a carefully curated set of insights planted in the datasets. Second, unlike existing benchmarks focusing on answering single queries, InsightBench evaluates agents based on their ability to perform end-to-end data analytics, including formulating questions, interpreting answers, and generating a summary of insights and actionable steps. Third, we conducted comprehensive quality assurance to ensure that each dataset in the benchmark had clear goals and included relevant and meaningful questions and analysis. Furthermore, we implement a two-way evaluation mechanism using LLaMA-3 as an effective, open-source evaluator to assess agents’ ability to extract insights. We also propose AgentPoirot, our baseline data analysis agent capable of performing end-to-end data analytics. Our evaluation on InsightBench shows that AgentPoirot outperforms existing approaches (such as Pandas Agent) that focus on resolving single queries. We also compare the performance of open- and closed-source LLMs and various evaluation strategies. Overall, this benchmark serves as a testbed to motivate further development in comprehensive automated data analytics.

Publication
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR)
Gaurav Sahu
Gaurav Sahu
Visiting Researcher

Visiting Researcher at AI Frontier Research located at Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Abhay Puri
Abhay Puri
Applied Research Scientist

Applied Research Scientist at AI Research Deployment​ located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Juan A. Rodriguez
Juan A. Rodriguez
Visiting Researcher

Visiting Researcher at AI Frontier Research located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Amirhossein Abaskohi
Amirhossein Abaskohi
Visiting Researcher

Visiting Researcher at AI Frontier Research located at Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Alexandre Drouin
Alexandre Drouin
Head of AI Frontier Research​

Head of AI Frontier Research​ at AI Frontier Research located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Perouz Taslakian
Perouz Taslakian
Research Lead

Research Lead at AI Frontier Research located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Valentina Zantedeschi
Valentina Zantedeschi
Research Scientist

Research Scientist at AI Frontier Research located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Alexandre Lacoste
Alexandre Lacoste
Research Lead

Research Lead at AI Frontier Research located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

David Vazquez
David Vazquez
Director of AI Research

Director of AI Research at AI Research Management located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Nicolas Chapados
Nicolas Chapados
VP of Research

VP of Research at AI Research Management located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Christopher Pal
Christopher Pal
Distinguished Scientist

Distinguished Scientist at AI Research Partnerships & Ecosystem​ located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Issam H. Laradji
Issam H. Laradji
Research Manager

Research Manager at AI Frontier Research located at Vancouver, BC, Canada.