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

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

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

Med-Scout: Curing MLLMs' Geometric Blindness in Medical Perception via Geometry-Aware RL Post-Training

arXiv:2601. 23220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)' linguistic prowess in medical diagnosis, we find even state-of-the-art MLLMs suffer from a critical perceptual deficit: geometric blindness.

By Anglin Liu, Ruichao Chen, Yi Lu, Hongxia Xu, Jintai Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

MMSkills: Towards Multimodal Skills for General Visual Agents

arXiv:2605. 13527v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reusable skills have become a core substrate for improving agent capabilities, yet most existing skill packages encode reusable behavior primarily as textual prompts, executable code, or learned routines.

By Kangning Zhang, Shuai Shao, Qingyao Li, Jianghao Lin, Lingyue Fu, Shijian Wang, Wenxiang Jiao, Yuan Lu, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement

arXiv:2606. 00267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions.

By Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian, Wenhao Ding, Apoorva Sharma, Karen Leung, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone, Andrea Bajcsy