arxivecon.EMeess.SY2026-07-03
Retrieval over Reasoning: A Cost-Controlled Benchmark of Language Models for Energy-Retrofit Recommendation
Recommending the correct set of energy conservation measures (ECMs) for a building is a structured, multi-label prediction problem in which a task-specific supervised model has weak training signal and a general language model has no grounding in the local building stock. We stud…