Evaluating multimodal commercial and open-source large language models for dynamical astronomy: a benchmark study of resonant behavior classification
摘要
We present a systematic evaluation of modern multimodal large language models (LLMs) for the classification of mean-motion and secular resonances from images of resonant arguments. Four benchmark datasets (RB-TEST, RB-PILOT, RB-SMALL, RB-FULL) were constructed to cover clear, ambiguous, and transient cases, with both binary and three-class outputs. Using standardized prompts (a full prompt for large models and a simplified variant for small models that cannot process complex instructions), we tested flagship commercial models, large open-source models, and small locally runnable models. Commercial LLMs reach