Benchmarks and evaluation

Leaderboards, eval harnesses and ablations — the contested business of deciding which model is actually better.

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arXiv AI
Jun 9

From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG

arXiv:2603. 03292v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit high reasoning capacity in medical question-answering, but their tendency to produce hallucinations and outdated knowledge poses critical risks in healthcare fields.

By Wenhao Wu, Zhentao Tang, Yafu Li, Shixiong Kai, Mingxuan Yuan, Zhenhong Sun, Chunlin Chen, Zhi Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Can AI Weather Models Predict Beyond Two Weeks? A Quantitative Benchmark and Analysis of Long Rollouts

arXiv:2605. 30184v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While AI weather models excel at short-to-medium range forecasts (up to 15 days), they frequently suffer from ill-defined "instabilities" when rolled out over longer horizons.

By Fanny Lehmann, Firat Ozdemir, Yun Cheng, Torsten Hoefler, Sebastian Schemm, Benedikt Soja, Siddhartha Mishra
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Subtitle-Aligned Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Swiss German ASR: Benchmark Contamination, Convention Mismatch, and an Honest Baseline at 25.6% WER (13.8% cWER)

arXiv:2606. 07608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a systematic study of fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper large-v3 for Swiss German ASR, using 1,367 hours of broadcast speech paired with Standard German subtitles as weak supervision.

By Felix Akeret
arXiv AI
Jun 9

CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2605. 25624v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven breakthroughs in domains such as math, tool-use, and software engineering, yet its extension to computer-use agents (CUAs) has been bottlenecked by the scarcity of scalable training data with deterministic rewards.

By Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junli Wang, Tianyi Bai, Shixuan Liu, Zhipeng Zhang, Haiquan Wang, Hao Hu, Tianbao Xie, Shuai Bai, Dayiheng Liu, Que Shen, Junyang Lin, Tao Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

GPT-Micro: A large language paradigm for accelerated, inexpensive, and thermodynamics-consistent discovery of constitutive models in manufacturing

arXiv:2606. 08238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constitutive modeling of the relationship between process-imposed material states and fundamental material properties is critical to control of material microstructure in manufacturing processes.

By Soumik Dutta, Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Sania Shree, Logan McNeil, Thomas Feldhausen, Hongyi Xu, Rajiv Malhotra
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Can LLMs extract scientific consensus? A case study in high-temperature superconductivity

arXiv:2606. 07570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific knowledge is increasingly dispersed across vast and heterogeneous scientific literature, where important claims are often implicit, evolving, and internally debated.

By Mouyang Cheng, Wenhao He, Zhuotao Jin, Bowen Yu, Ju Li, Boris Kozinsky, Yao Wang, Pavel Volkov, Liangzi Deng, Ching-Wu Chu, Xiao-Gang Wen, Mingda Li
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

arXiv:2602. 07774v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge.

By Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu, Kavosh Asadi, Xi Liu, Shuo Gu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Frank Shyu, Shuaiwen Wang, Song Yang, Zhijing Li, Jiang Liu, Mengying Sun, Fei Tian, Xiaohan Wei, Chonglin Sun, Jacob Tao, Shike Mei, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Sandeep Pandey, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap: An Evaluation Framework for Autonomous Cyber Defense Configuration of Commercial EDR

arXiv:2606. 08168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leading commercial endpoint detection and response (EDR) products have shifted from operator-configured rule sets to multi-component systems where autonomous AI components operate alongside, and increasingly in place of, operator-deployed policies.

By Kerri Prinos, Lilianne Brush
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

OpenCompass: A Universal Evaluation Platform for Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 19276v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence has undergone a paradigm shift from task-specific small-scale models to general-purpose large language models (LLMs).

By Maosong Cao, Kai Chen, Haodong Duan, Yixiao Fang, Zhiwei Fei, Tong Gao, Ge Jiaye, Mo Li, Hongwei Liu, Junnan Liu, Yuan Liu, Chengqi Lyu, Han Lyu, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Yu Sun, Zhiyong Wu, Linchen Xiao, Zhuozhi Xiong, Jun Xu, Haochen Ye, Zhaohui Yu, Yike Yuan, Songyang Zhang, Yufeng Zhao, Fengzhe Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Lin Zhu, Jingming Zhuo
arXiv AI
Jun 9

GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606. 08530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot embodiments.

By Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen, Shuai Dong, Jiajun Deng, Xin Zhang, Yuxuan Gao, Jiajia Wu, Xin Nie, Zhiyuan Cheng, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Jia Pan
arXiv AI
Jun 9

AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing

arXiv:2606. 09811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation, jointly modeling visual scene dynamics and actions to inject physical priors into policy learning.

By Jisong Cai, Long Ling, Shiwei Chu, Zhongshan Liu, Jiayue Kang, Zhixuan Liang, Wenjie Xu, Yinan Mao, Weinan Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Ru Ying, Ran Zheng, Yao Mu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

arXiv:2606. 07591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents are increasingly used for scientific work, but their end-to-end autonomous research capability remains difficult to verify.

By Wanghan Xu, Shuo Li, Tianlin Ye, Qinglong Cao, Yixin Chen, Hengjian Gao, Yiheng Wang, Qi Li, Kun Li, Sheng Xu, Shengdu Chai, Fangchen Yu, Xiangyu Zhao, Zhangrui Zhao, Weijie Ma, Zijie Guo, Haoyu Zhou, Haoxiang Yin, Lixue Cheng, Chaofan Hu, Haoxuan Li, Lu Mi, Xuxuan Xie, Yifan Zhou, Ruizhe Chen, Zhiwang Zhou, Xingjian Guo, Yuhao Zhou, Xuming He, Shengyuan Xu, Xinyu Gu, Jiamin Wu, Mianxin Liu, Chunfeng Song, Fenghua Ling, Dongzhan Zhou, Shixiang Tang, Yuqiang Li, Mao Su, Peng Ye, Siqi Sun, Bin Wang, Xue Yang, Zhenfei Yin, Tianfan Fu, Guangtao Zhai, Wanli Ouyang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Wenlong Zhang