Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 7

PosterHarness: Turning Scientific Poster Generation into an Auditable Instruction-Following Benchmark

arXiv:2607. 03006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-rich image models can now design poster-scale layouts, but we lack ways to measure whether they honor scientific communication contracts: legible labels, prescribed aspect ratios, and -- above all -- abstaining from fabricated scientific figures.

By Tianyi Yang, Dawei Fu, Youpeng Wu, Zixun Kou, Linrui Chen, Ruobing Jiang, Zijian Wang, Qiang Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Memisis: Orchestrating and Evaluating Synthetic Data for Tabular Health Datasets

arXiv:2605. 17758v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic data is widely used in healthcare to create datasets that preserve statistical properties of real data without exposing sensitive patient information.

By Nitish Nagesh, Pengbao Zhou, Atchuth Naveen Chilaparasetti, Yajat Nagaraj Kiran, Tu Nguyen, Arshia Harish Puthran, Muhjaazee Love, Aadi Sharma, Mahdi Bagheri, Ian Harris, Amir M. Rahmani
arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv AI
Jul 7

S-EMBER: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Streaming Egocentric Memory Retrieval

arXiv:2607. 02689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As wearable devices enable continuous first-person recording, AI assistants must reason across long time horizons to recall past experiences-a capability known as episodic memory.

By Xiaodong Wang, Xuanyi Zhao, Pedro Rodriguez, Devendra Singh Sachan, Barlas Oguz, Seungwhan Moon, Shang-Wen Li, Gargi Ghosh, Xin Dong, Wen-Tau Yih
arXiv AI
Jul 7

DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

arXiv:2607. 05147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification.

By Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao, Jiashi Li, Yunfan Xiong, Yi Qian, Jiaqi Zhu, Shirong Ma, Xiaokang Zhang, Jiasheng Ye, Qinyu Chen, Chengqi Deng, Jiping Yu, Damai Dai, Zhengyan Zhang, Yixuan Wei, Yixuan Tan, Wenkai Yang, Runxin Xu, Yu Wu, Zhean Xu, Xuanyu Wang, Muyang Chen, Rui Tian, Xiao Bi, Zhewen Hao, Shaoyuan Chen, Huanqi Cao, Wentao Zhang, Anyi Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Wenfeng Liang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

AutoResearch: An Execution-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Research Workflow Automation

arXiv:2607. 02520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated research agents increasingly generate code, retrieve literature, and draft scientific artifacts, but they often fail to verify whether generated experiments execute correctly or whether cited sources support generated claims.

By Rajesh Kumar, Waqar Ali, Junaid Ahmed, Abdullah Aman Khan, Shaoning Zeng
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Auto-AEG: Scalable Data Construction for Open-Vocabulary Audio Event Grounding

arXiv:2607. 04383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) reason fluently about sound yet struggle to localize precisely when events occur, while classical Sound Event Detection attains frame-level precision only over a closed label set.

By Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Wenhao Yan, Tong Zhang, Dongjie Fu, Boyun Zhang, Yongbo He, Tao Jin
arXiv AI
Jul 7

MatPhaseBench: A Semantics-Guided Benchmark for Materials Phase Diagrams Understanding

arXiv:2607. 02934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Materials phase diagrams are a core knowledge representation in materials science, encoding temperature,composition, phase stability, and phase transformation pathways, with their full understanding requiring thermodynamic mechanism analysis and scientific reasoning.

By Hanwen Wang, Sihan Liang, Zhiwei Liu, Yangang Wang, Wei Yan, Yuqin Liu, Zongguo Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

RustMizan: A Compilable, Contamination-Aware Benchmarking Framework for Rust Vulnerabilities

arXiv:2607. 04729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly applied to vulnerability analysis, but existing benchmarks have not kept pace.

By Tarek Elsayed, Shiping Yang, Eunsong Koh, Sanika Goyal, Vincent Huang, Paul Ngo, Nathan Young, Mohammad Omidvar Tehrani, Alvyn Kang, Arnell Kang, Zeyu Chen, Ang\'elica Moreira, Xuan Feng, Angel X. Chang, Nick Sumner, Steven Y. Ko