Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

MAG: MAnifold Guided Semi-Supervised Multi-modal In-Context Learning

arXiv:2608. 12724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot in-context learning (ICL) with multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) enables task adaptation without parameter updates, but its performance is highly sensitive to the quality and coverage of the selected demonstrations.

By Zirui Cheng, Xun Xu, Tiankai Chen, Fady Rezk, Bowen Zheng, Xiaodong Shi, Shijie Li, Kangkang Lu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Nancy F. Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

Decentralized Multi-Player Q-Learning in Episodic Markov Decision Processes with Information Asymmetry

arXiv:2608. 12753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study decentralized multi-player reinforcement learning in episodic tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) under three forms of information asymmetry: (A) unobserved actions with common rewards, (B) observed actions with independent rewards, and (C) unobserved actions with independent rewards.

By Larissa Xu, King Bi, William Chang
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Reasoning Jury: Multi-Model Consensus for Evaluating Reasoning Traces

arXiv:2608. 12585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving reasoning LLMs requires the ability to judge the quality of long reasoning traces for effective reasoning data curation, strong training signals during reinforcement learning, and an in-depth understanding of reasoning behaviors during model performance evaluation.

By Congchao Wang, Diwakar Singh, Qiaozi Gao, Spyros Matsoukas, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

arXiv:2608. 12928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Polish-language medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmark, built from Polish Board Certification Examination questions for licensed physicians and dentists pursuing specialist certification.

By Jakub Pokrywka, {\L}ukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik, Marek Kubis, Jeremi Ignacy Kaczmarek, Wojciech Kusa
arXiv AI
Aug 14

TsuGO: Probing Search Efficiency in LLM Reasoning via Go Life-and-Death Problems

arXiv:2608. 13221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of LLM reasoning is moving from final-answer accuracy to process-level assessment, yet existing methods still fail to capture how models plan reasoning paths and allocate reasoning resources--that is, how they organize search.

By Shunwen Bai, Ziping Ma, Chaoyang Zhang, Yarong Wang, Jiale Liu, Zhen Qin, Qingpei Guo
arXiv AI
Aug 14

LongEarth-R1: Benchmarking and Aligning Vision-Language Models for Long-Horizon Earth Observation Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.

By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Unified Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Complex Graph Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 12391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph reasoning provides a promising testbed for evaluating the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), as graph instances can be programmatically generated, structurally controlled, and naturally scaled to long-input settings.

By Fali Wang, Ali Al-Lawati, Iliyas Bektas, Jinxuan Fang, Alek Melenski, Tianxiang Zhao, Yao Ma, Suhang Wang