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# DABStep: Data Agent Benchmark for Multi-step Reasoning

**[Hugging Face](https://daily.dev/sources/huggingface)** · 18 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

DABStep, developed by Adyen and Hugging Face, is a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI models' multi-step reasoning capabilities in data analysis tasks. Comprising over 450 real-world tasks, it highlights the challenges current AI models face, achieving only 16% accuracy. The benchmark is unique due to its focus on real-world use cases, structured and unstructured data, simple setup, factoid evaluation, and multi-step complexity. A real-time leaderboard and several baseline evaluations provide insights into the performance of current AI models, with paths for future improvements outlined.

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