arXiv:2606. 25984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as investment research assistants, yet no benchmark tests whether they can accurately reconstruct and apply the specific procedural decision frameworks of expert investors.
By Mingguang Chen, Bo Qu
The paper introduces the Grounded Integration Measure (GIM), a benchmark of 820 expert‑authored problems designed to test models on tasks that integrate multiple cognitive operations such as constraint satisfaction, state tracking, epistemic vigilance, and audience calibration. GIM emphasizes realistic, broadly accessible knowledge rather than specialized expertise, and uses a judge‑aware 2‑parameter logistic IRT model to produce robust ability estimates across 53 model‑thinking‑level configurations. The authors provide a comprehensive leaderboard of 22 models and 47 test configurations, and conduct an extensive study on how test‑time compute affects model capability, finding that configuration choices like thinking budget and quantization can be as influential as model selection itself.
whyItMatters":"By focusing on integration of multiple cognitive domains, GIM offers a more realistic assessment of model reasoning capabilities than benchmarks that either overemphasize memorization or abstract reasoning alone."
By Rohit Patel, Alexandre Rezende, Steven McClain
arXiv:2608.21601v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Benchmarks for scientific artificial intelligence are mostly written to be scored: multiple-choice questions, curated agent tasks with reference soluti...
By Aubrey Brueckner, Darshil Patel, Yuhuan He, Timothy Kassis
arXiv:2608. 07529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as technical assistants, but their competence in solid waste management (SWM) remains difficult to assess because existing benchmarks emphasize general knowledge rather than professional decisions under engineering, environmental, and policy constraints.
By Yi Zhang, Hongyang Wang, Zheng Hao Leong, Zihao Wu, Kaijun Lin, Zhixing Pan, Qixun Huangfu, Wei Ren, Wenyan Wu, Fangyun Wang, Wenting Yu, Hengyu Lin, Muling Yang, Zongguo Wen
arXiv:2608. 20106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce OenoBench, a wine-domain knowledge benchmark of 3,266 multiple-choice questions across six pillars (regions, grape varieties, viticulture, winemaking, producers, business) and four difficulty tiers.
By Nikita Khudov
arXiv:2604. 24827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Closed-source frontier labs do not disclose parameter counts.
By Bojie Li
arXiv:2605. 17554v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier deep research agents (DRAs) plan a research task, synthesize across documents, and return a structured deliverable on demand.
By Tanmay Asthana, Aman Saksena, Divyansh Sahu
arXiv:2608. 06108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investment competence is inherently personalized: the same market evidence can justify different actions for investors with different goals, horizons, portfolios, and risk boundaries.
By Yuanhong Jiang, Jingjie Zou, Zhenghong Lin, Xusheng Yu, Qiqi Huang, Shuai Jia, Shijie Dai
arXiv:2607. 24889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial models combine public disclosures with analyst assumptions to produce forecasts and valuations.
By Jiacheng Lu, Sinuo Wang, Wentao Zhao, Rui Sun, Cheng Hua, Tao Song, Hui Cai, Beidi Luan, Zhengze Wu, Lingjing Teng, Yijia He, Jing Li, Daxin Jiang, Zuo Bai, Haibing Guan
FinExam-10K is a new English benchmark for financial reasoning, comprising 10,198 expert‑reannotated questions covering CFA Levels I‑III and FRM Parts I‑II. The dataset is split into a 5,110‑question release and a 5,088‑question held‑out set for a quarterly leaderboard, with separate Full‑Coverage and Context‑Complete Reasoning tracks. Across 17 models, the best overall accuracy is 85.29 %, but performance drops on harder subsets, and retrieval‑augmented methods like Function‑Graph‑RAG provide modest gains when gated appropriately.
By Yan Lin, Jingyu Sun, Zhongliang Guo, Qing Li, Zhuohan Xie, Yuxia Wang
arXiv:2606. 09556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI Scientist agents are often evaluated as if capability were mainly a function of model quality, prompting, or reasoning scaffolds.
By Yinan Wang
arXiv:2509. 14704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmark saturation and training-data contamination increasingly obscure whether reported gains in large language models (LLMs) reflect genuine advances in reasoning or familiarity with recurring patterns in benchmark problems.
By Masaharu Mizumoto, Dat Nguyen, Zhiheng Han, Xingfu Li, Yo Nakawake, Le Minh Nguyen