TimeBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Temporal Reasoning Abilities in
  Large Language Models
Zheng Chu Jingchang Chen Qianglong Chen Weijiang Yu Haotian Wang Ming Liu Bing Qin
Understanding time is a pivotal aspect of human cognition, crucial in the
broader framework of grasping the intricacies of the world. Previous studies
typically focus on specific aspects of time, lacking a comprehensive temporal
reasoning benchmark. To address this issue, we propose TimeBench, a
comprehensive hierarchical temporal reasoning benchmark that covers a broad
spectrum of temporal reasoning phenomena, which provides a thorough evaluation
for investigating the temporal reasoning capabilities of large language models.
We conduct extensive experiments on popular LLMs, such as GPT-4, LLaMA2, and
Mistral, incorporating chain-of-thought prompting. Our experimental results
indicate a significant performance gap between the state-of-the-art LLMs and
humans, highlighting that there is still a considerable distance to cover in
temporal reasoning. We aspire for TimeBench to serve as a comprehensive
benchmark, fostering research in temporal reasoning for LLMs. Our resource is
available at https://github.com/zchuz/TimeBench