BaziQA-Benchmark: Evaluating Symbolic and Temporally Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12889v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:45:42 GMT
• Title: BaziQA-Benchmark: Evaluating Symbolic and Temporally Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Authors: Jiangxi Chen, Qian Liu,
• Abstract summary: BaziQA-Benchmark is a standardized benchmark for evaluating symbolic and temporally compositional reasoning in large language models.<n>We evaluate contemporary language models under a multi-turn setting and analyze performance variation across temporal difficulty, reasoning domains, and inference protocols.<n>Results show that models consistently outperform chance but remain far from saturation, exhibiting pronounced sensitivity to temporal composition and reasoning order.
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• Abstract: We present BaziQA-Benchmark, a standardized benchmark for evaluating symbolic and temporally compositional reasoning in large language models. The benchmark is derived from 200 professionally curated, multiple-choice problems from the Global Fortune-teller Competition (2021--2025), where each instance requires structured inference over a fixed symbolic chart and interacting temporal conditions. Unlike anecdotal or prompt-driven evaluations, BaziQA-Benchmark enables objective scoring and controlled comparison across years, domains, and model families. We evaluate contemporary language models under a multi-turn setting and analyze performance variation across temporal difficulty, reasoning domains, and inference protocols.To further probe reasoning behavior, we introduce a lightweight Structured Reasoning Protocol that constrains inference order without adding domain knowledge. Results show that models consistently outperform chance but remain far from saturation, exhibiting pronounced sensitivity to temporal composition and reasoning order, as well as systematic failures on precise temporal localization and multi-condition symbolic judgments.

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