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 2

Rethinking the Role of Temperature in Large Language Model Distillation

arXiv:2606. 00306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reverse Kullback-Leibler (RKL) divergence is widely favored over forward KL (FKL) in large language models (LLM) distillation, yet this preference is largely based on comparisons that omit the temperature $\tau$, overlooking its central role in softening teacher distributions and improving knowledge transfer.

By Hoang-Chau Luong, Lingwei Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence

arXiv:2605. 14355v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI agents improve, the central question is no longer whether they can solve isolated well-defined financial tasks, but whether they can reliably carry out financial professional work.

By Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Vincent Jim Zhang, Huan He, Xuguang Ai, Linhai Ma, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He, Yi Han, Shuyao Wang, Yuqing Guo, Mingyang Jiang, Yilun Zhao, Youzhong Dong, Xiaoyu Wang, Yankai Chen, Ye Yuan, Qiyuan Zhang, Fuyuan Lyu, Haolun Wu, Yonghan Yang, Zichen Zhao, Yuyang Dai, Fan Zhang, Rania Elbadry, Ayesha Gull, Muhammad Usman Safder, Nuo Chen, Fengbin Zhu, Tianshi Cai, Zimu Wang, Polydoros Giannouris, Yuechen Jiang, Zhiwei Liu, Mohsinul Kabir, Yuyan Wang, Yixiang Zheng, Yangyang Yu, Weijin Liu, Wenbo Cao, Anke Xu, Peng Lu, Jerry Huang, Mingquan Lin, Prayag Tiwari, Yijia Zhao, V\'ictor Guti\'errez-Basulto, Xiao-Yang Liu, Kaleb E Smith, Jiahuan Pei, Arman Cohan, Jimin Huang, Yuehua Tang, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Xi Chen, Xue Liu, Junichi Tsujii, Jian-Yun Nie, Sophia Ananiadou
arXiv AI
Jun 2

ReasonBENCH: Benchmarking the (In)Stability of LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2512. 07795v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmark scores for LLM reasoning systems are reported as single numbers, yet the same model, strategy, and task can produce meaningfully different answers and costs across repeated executions, even under greedy decoding (T = 0).

By Nearchos Potamitis, Vansh Ramani, Har Ashish Arora, Dhairya Kuchhal, Lars Klein, Akhil Arora
arXiv AI
Jun 2

STaR-KV: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Re-weighting for KV Cache Compression in GUI Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 01790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-model-based graphical user interface (GUI) agents have shown broad automation capabilities, yet deployment is bottlenecked by a key-value (KV) cache that grows linearly with interaction steps.

By Yuhang Han, Wenzheng Yang, Yujie Chen, Xiangqi Jin, Yaojie Zhang, Siteng Huang, Linfeng Zhang