KORGym: A Dynamic Game Platform for LLM Reasoning Evaluation
Jiajun Shi, Jian Yang, Jiaheng Liu, Xingyuan Bu, Jiangjie Chen, Junting Zhou, Kaijing Ma, Zhoufutu Wen, Bingli Wang, Yancheng He, Liang Song, Hualei Zhu
Abstract
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) underscore the need for more comprehensive evaluation methods to accurately assess their reasoning capabilities. Existing benchmarks are often domain-specific and thus cannot fully capture an LLM’s general reasoning potential. To address this limitation, we introduce the Knowledge Orthogonal Reasoning Gymnasium (KORGym) 1 , a dynamic evaluation platform inspired by KOR-Bench [1] and Gymnasium [2]. KORGym offers over fifty games in either textual or visual formats and supports interactive, multi-turn assessments with reinforcement learning scenarios. Using KORGym, we conduct extensive experiments on 19 LLMs and 8 VLMs, revealing consistent reasoning patterns within model families and demonstrating the superior performance of closed-source models. Further analysis examines the effects of modality, reasoning strategies, reinforcement learning techniques, and response length on model performance. We expect KORGym to become a valuable resource for advancing LLM reasoning research and developing evaluation methodologies suited to complex, interactive environments.
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