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Query Your Way Out: Benchmarking Multi-Turn Knowledge Reasoning through Generalized Puzzle Solving

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The Token Games: Evaluating Language Model Reasoning with Puzzle Duels

The Token Games (TTG) is an evaluation framework that pits language models against each other by having them create and solve programming puzzles. Using pairwise duels and Elo ratings, the authors benchmarked ten frontier models, achieving rankings comparable to established tests while spending under $200 and requiring no human puzzle creation. The study highlights that generating high-quality puzzles remains difficult for current models and proposes a new paradigm for reasoning evaluation that also tests creativity and task creation.

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CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

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WordPolo: Evaluating Language Models Through Iterative Semantic Feedback

WordPolo is a word‑finding task that evaluates language models by having them guess an unknown target word and receive semantic similarity feedback. Participants start with no knowledge, make iterative guesses, and receive distance scores that guide them through semantic space. The study tests recent LLMs, LRMs, humans, and a heuristic on 1,500 puzzles, revealing that while solve rates vary widely, many models make meaningful progress and exhibit human‑like strategies, highlighting the importance of assessing reasoning processes, not just final accuracy.

By Tyler McDonald, Ali Emami
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DyCon: Dynamic Reasoning Control via Evolving Difficulty Modeling

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