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Explore AEC Benchmarks

Welcome to the Benchmark Tutorial

OpenConstruction benchmarks organize evaluation evidence for architecture, engineering, and construction tasks. This guide explains how to explore benchmark tasks and interpret reported results responsibly.

Explore AEC Benchmarks tutorial title slide

Open the Benchmark Explorer

Open the public Benchmark Explorer from the Insights area. You can search for benchmark tasks and browse the available task categories.

OpenConstruction Benchmark Explorer with search and task categories

Search by Task

Enter a task or application in the search field. Task-based search helps you find comparable evidence more efficiently than browsing every reported result at once.

Benchmark Explorer filtered using an object-related task search

Select a Benchmark Task

Choose a benchmark task from the results. A task page organizes the problem definition, associated datasets, candidate models, evaluation metrics, and reported benchmark results.

Benchmark Explorer showing tasks grouped by data modality

Inspect the Reported Evidence

Review the evidence before interpreting the numbers. Confirm which dataset was used, which model was evaluated, which metric was reported, and where the result originated.

Benchmark leaderboard showing models and reported metric values

Interpret Scores in Context

A model score is meaningful only when its task, dataset, data split, metric, and source are understood. Open the benchmark record and, when available, follow its dataset and paper links to verify the underlying evidence.

Benchmark detail page showing task, dataset, metric, license, and source information

Use Benchmarks for Decision-Making

Benchmarks provide evidence for decision-making, not automatic endorsements. Use them to identify promising methods, evidence gaps, and useful next experiments.

Tutorial conclusion encouraging responsible use of benchmark evidence

You are now ready to search benchmark tasks, inspect their evidence, and interpret reported results in context.