XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the question

Back to Articles XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the question Enterprise Article Published November 13, 2026 Upvote 2 Kyle Wiggers Ai2Comms allenai 📄 Paper | 🤗 Data | 💻 Code Truly useful AI assistants need to be able to help users who ask misguided questions—not just users who ask the right question with the right amount of detail. We’re releasing XYBench, a benchmark of 8K+ questions that tests how AI assistants respond to requests based on misconceptions, such as asking how to thicken frosting that keeps sliding off cupcakes when the real problem is that the cupcakes are still too warm to frost. XYBench won the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2026. A mismatch between the approach someone asks about and the goal they want to achieve…