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⏳ TIME

[NeurIPS'25 Spotlight] TIME: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios

🎉🎉 Congratulations! This paper has been accepted as NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight 🌟🔥 at D&B track.

> 🌟 If you found this work helpful, please consider giving us a ⭐ on GitHub!

📋 Project Information

Authors: Shaohang Wei, Wei Li, Feifan Song, Wen Luo, Tianyi Zhuang, Haochen Tan, Zhijiang Guo, Houfeng Wang

Affiliation: Peking University, Noah's Ark Lab Contact: shaohang@stu.pku.edu.cn

📖 Abstract

Temporal reasoning is pivotal for Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend the real world. However, existing works neglect the real-world challenges for temporal reasoning:

Intensive temporal information
Fast-changing event dynamics
Complex temporal dependencies in social interactions

To bridge this gap, we propose a multi-level benchmark TIME, designed for temporal reasoning in real-world scenarios.

TIME consists of 38,522 QA pairs, covering 3 levels with 11 fine-grained sub-tasks. This benchmark encompasses 3 sub-datasets reflecting different real-world challenges: TIME-Wiki, TIME-News, and TIME-Dial.

We conduct extensive experiments on reasoning models and non-reasoning models, and conducted an in-depth analysis of temporal reasoning performance across diverse real-world scenarios and tasks, and summarized the impact of test-time scaling on temporal reasoning capabilities. Additionally, we release TIME-Lite, a human-annotated subset to foster future research and standardized evaluation in temporal reasoning.

🚀 Get Started

📥 Step 1: Install Dependencies

# Install git-lfs
pip install git-lfs

📊 Step 2: Download Dataset

We provide two datasets. Choose according to your needs:

⚠️ Option 1: Complete TIME Dataset (Large dataset - may be too large for quick evaluation)

# Navigate to the working directory and download the benchmark dataset TIME
chmod +x scripts/downloaddatatime.sh
Download the data
./scripts/downloaddatatime.sh

✅ Option 2: TIME-Lite Dataset (Recommended - High-quality subset)

# Navigate to the working directory and download the benchmark dataset TIME-Lite
chmod +x scripts/downloaddatatime_lite.sh
Download the data
./scripts/downloaddatatime_lite.sh

🔧 Step 3: Install Evaluation Dependencies

pip install -r evaluation/requirements.txt

▶️ Step 4: Run Evaluation

Option A: Evaluate TIME dataset

./scripts/eval_time.sh

Option B: Evaluate TIME-Lite dataset (Recommended)

./scripts/eval_timelite.sh

🧠 Construction Pipeline

📊 Data Quantity

📈 Dataset Statistics:

TIME: 38,522 QA pairs (Complete benchmark)
TIME-Lite: 943 QA pairs (High-quality subset)

Here is a detailed breakdown of the dataset statistics:

| Dataset | All Tasks | Ext. | Loc. | Comp. | D.C. | O.C. | E.R. | O.R. | R.R. | C.T. | T.L. | C.F. | |------------------|-----------|------|------|-------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------| | TIME | 38522 | 1480 | 3546 | 3376 | 3401 | 3549 | 3537 | 3538 | 3537 | 3513 | 5508 | 3537 | | TIME-Wiki | 13848 | 1261 | 1299 | 1126 | 1151 | 1299 | 1287 | 1288 | 1287 | 1263 | 1300 | 1287 | | TIME-News | 19958 | 0 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 3758 | 1800 | | TIME-Dial | 4716 | 219 | 447 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | | TIME-Lite | 943 | 60 | 90 | 78 | 86 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 89 | 90 | | TIME-Lite-Wiki | 322 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | | TIME-Lite-News | 299 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 30 | | TIME-Lite-Dial | 322 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |

Task abbreviations: Ext. (Extract), Loc. (Localization), Comp. (Computation), D.C. (Duration Compare), O.C. (Order Compare); E.R. (Explicit Reasoning), O.R. (Order Reasoning), R.R. (Relative Reasoning); C.T. (Co-temporality), T.L. (Timeline), C.F. (Counterfactual).

💪🏻 Evaluation Results

📊 TIME-Lite Results Radar Charts

Here are the detailed evaluation results for the TIME-Lite dataset on different sub-datasets:

🗄️ TIME-Lite-Wiki

📰 TIME-Lite-News

💬 TIME-Lite-Dial

💬 Citation

If you find our work interesting and meaningful, welcome to star this repo, give an upvote to our HF repo TIME and cite our paper as follows.

@article{wei2025time,
  title={TIME: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios},
  author={Wei, Shaohang and Li, Wei and Song, Feifan and Luo, Wen and Zhuang, Tianyi and Tan, Haochen and Guo, Zhijiang and Wang, Houfeng},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12891},
  year={2025}
}

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