Benchmarks and evaluation

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

28,127 stories · RSS feed

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

Edit Discovery in Human-AI Interactions

arXiv:2610.22661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-AI interactions are becoming a rich source of data for improving AI systems: while many model responses are already satisfactory, others expose f...

By Alireza Mirrokni, Shayan Kiyani, George Pappas, Hamed Hassani
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

Practical and Private Hybrid ML Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

arXiv:2509.01253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. F...

By Sayan Biswas, Philippe Chartier, Akash Dhasade, Tom Jurien, David Kerriou, Anne-Marie Kerrmarec, Mohammed Lemou, Franklin Tranie, Martijn de Vos, Milos Vujasinovic
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 19

KiranaBench: Can a Language Model Run a Neighbourhood Shop?

arXiv:2610.22980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly evaluated on long-horizon tasks, including autonomously running a business. Existing benchmarks for...

By Bhuvan Arora, Ankita Karmakar, Chaitanya Jain, Dilesh Churiwal, Harshit Jain, Shivansh Manish Dubey, Manish Prasad, Raja Piyush, Kshitij Tayal, Dhruv Kumar, Jagat Sesh Challa, Raunak Manekar, Yash Sinha
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 19

Ignored, Not Refused: What Low Prompt-Injection Success Rates Hide in Small Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2610.23254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents read untrusted external content, which exposes them to indirect prompt injection (IPI), where hidden instructions hijack the agent's...

By Farhan Zarif, Kazi Shahid Ahmed Galib, Synthia Akter Promi, Shabnam Sharmin Tarin, Ariyan Hossain, Sadif Ahmed, Farig Yousuf Sadeque
Towards Data Science
Oct 16

I Reran My Python 3.14 JIT Benchmarks on Python 3.15

The article reports that the author reran Python 3.14 JIT benchmarks on Python 3.15, observing a significantly stronger Just-In-Time (JIT) performance across the same three workloads. However, the improved JIT does not universally benefit all programs, indicating that performance gains are workload‑dependent.

By Thomas Reid
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Temporal Specification Guidance for Text-to-Video Generation

The paper introduces Temporal Specification Guidance (TSG), a training‑free inference framework that uses Temporal Logic specifications to guide text‑to‑video generation. TSG evaluates visual concept traces with differentiable quantitative semantics and adjusts the denoising direction via gradient‑derived attention biases, eliminating the need for external classifiers or backpropagation through the transformer. Experiments on 220 prompts across 11 temporal constraint categories show that TSG improves specification satisfaction by 9.5–20 percentage points over classifier‑free guidance with minimal memory overhead.

By Avishree Khare, Hideki Okamoto, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Rajeev Alur
arXiv AI
Oct 16

OmicsBench: a long-horizon multi-turn benchmark of AI agents on research-study-scale bioinformatics

OmicsBench is a new long‑horizon, multi‑turn bioinformatics benchmark for AI agents, comprising 97 tasks that link 662 subtasks into directed acyclic graphs. Each subtask is a user turn scored deterministically, with optional in‑context feedback. Across 12 models, agents achieve mean scores between 0.43 and 0.67, revealing lower performance on dependent subtasks and highlighting qualitative failure modes through an unsupervised discovery pipeline.

By Gideon Shaked, Siddharth Nagisetty
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Ergodic topology sampling toward the continuum with Stochastic Normalizing Flows

The paper presents numerical evidence that topological freezing in SU(3) Yang‑Mills theory can be reduced using a flow‑based method. By combining open boundary conditions with Stochastic Normalizing Flows, the authors analyze how computational costs scale at lattice spacings as fine as 0.03 fm. They find that both the integrated autocorrelation time of the squared topological charge and the statistical uncertainty on the topological susceptibility stay under control across the explored parameter range with current computational resources.

By Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada, Dario Panfalone, Davide Vadacchino, Lorenzo Verzichelli
arXiv AI
Oct 16

From Research Goals to Scientific Closure: Evaluating Agents Through Evidence-Supported Physics Research

The paper introduces PhysClosureBench, a benchmark of 50 expert‑verified physics research tasks that test whether AI agents can organize investigations and produce evidence‑supported conclusions. Each task specifies a research goal and constraints, while the agent must design the investigation and validate evidence. Seven leading LLMs were evaluated, with Claude‑Opus‑5 scoring highest on local scientific accomplishment but achieving full research closure (RC4) only 32.7% of the time, revealing a gap between local success and complete closure.

By Yijia Mao, Song Dai, Tao Chen, Xiangyu Lu, Linqian Zeng, Chenxi Hu, Sitong Zhou, Dongyang He, Xiaodan Mao, Linxuan Zhang, Tong Zhu, Yafu Li, Fangchen Yu, Peng Ye, Feng He, Yu Cheng, Yun Luo
arXiv AI
Oct 16

In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases

The paper introduces GUISE, a benchmark of criminal‑assistance scenarios drawn from real‑world cases and organized using the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes. It evaluates large language models under three linguistic framings and across five cultures, finding that framing and cultural adaptation significantly increase unsafe compliance rates. The study also shows that unsafe responses from the least‑safe models exhibit strong Anglocentric language, with leakage growing alongside harmfulness.

By Mohsinul Kabir, Md. Tariquzzaman, Karam S. R. Elradie, Polydoros Giannouris, Yuechen Jiang, Shaoxiong Ji, Sophia Ananiadou
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

PocketTSLM: Deploying an On-Device Soft-Prompt Time-Series Language Model for Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Reasoning

PocketTSLM is a mobile-native deployment of the OpenTSLM SoftPrompt time‑series language model that runs entirely on a consumer smartphone. By injecting encoded time‑series windows as embeddings instead of tokenizing them as text, PocketTSLM preserves temporal structure while using far fewer tokens and staying within the device’s context and memory limits. The model has been benchmarked on 30‑second EEG sleep‑staging clips and 10‑second ECG recordings, achieving on‑device inference with no health data transmitted to the cloud.

By Max Rosenblattl, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Leon Nissen, Manuel Milling, Nicolas Zumarraga, Ning Wang, Thomas Kaar, Robert Jakob, Bj\"orn W. Schuller, Elgar Fleisch, Patrick Langer, Paul Schmiedmayer
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Same Target, Different Origins: Aligning Latent Rollout for Consistent PDE Emulation

The paper introduces Align Latent Rollout (ALR), a regularization technique for neural PDE solvers that encourages consistency across different rollout origins. ALR uses a second‑order Taylor analysis to define two objectives: zeroth‑order consistency aligning latent states at a shared target time, and first‑order consistency aligning local evolution responses to perturbations. The method can be applied to various neural PDE solvers without altering their architectures and demonstrates improved prediction accuracy and reduced discrepancies across rollout origins in multiple benchmarks.

By Xinying Li, Jing Xu, Wenjun Wang, Limei Han, Fenglei Cao, Ruoxi Jiang, Yuan Qi
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Training-Free On-Policy Distillation

The paper introduces training‑free on‑policy distillation, a method that consolidates multiple specialist models into a single student without any gradient updates. By performing only forward passes over a few hundred rollouts, the fused model can reproduce each specialist’s outputs layer‑by‑layer, achieving higher average accuracy than any individual specialist. The approach relies on a least‑squares solution that uses only the second moments of inputs, and careful handling of rollouts—such as removing repetitive answers—significantly improves performance on benchmarks like AIME25 and Olmo 3‑7B.

By Bangji Yang, Jiajun Fan, Zhaoyu Zhu, Hongbo Ma, Ge Liu