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arXiv AI By Josef Chen, Erim Hayretci

FlavourBench: Ranking Frontier Language Models with Executable Culinary Ground Truth

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FlavourBench is an automated benchmark that evaluates language models on culinary tasks by providing a versioned, executable ground truth system. Each task presents eight ingredients and asks the model to propose a three‑ingredient portfolio, with all 56 possible portfolios scored by the Epicure system before model execution. The benchmark assesses 27 frontier endpoints across 534 tasks, yielding a FlavourBench Score that averages frozen task scores across families, and includes extensive statistical analysis and reproducible data releases.

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