Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
Aug 13

Apodex Discovery: Reality Benchmarks and Environments for Evaluating and Building Discoverative Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608. 11341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Apollo did not reach the Moon merely because its engineers could solve difficult equations.

By Brian Wang, Bin Feng, Xiaoman Pan, Chenyang An, Felix Liu, Tangqi Fang, Gongbo Sun, Lingfeng Shen, Ning Wang, Handuo Zhang, Feng Chen, Fuchao Yang, Xiang Wang, Jiacheng Lin, Siting Li, Zixuan Liu, Chi Han, Zhenhailong Wang, Kunlun Zhu, Lawrence Zhao, Yueqi Guo, Kailong Wen, Feng Xing, Yiling Guo, Lidong Bing, David Tan, Bo An, Heng Ji, Sheng Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 13

VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies

arXiv:2608. 12282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents deployed in enterprise settings must reason across structured APIs and document collections, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation.

By Ankita Rajaram Naik, Anupama Murthi, Benjamin Elder, Siyu Huo, Raavi Gupta, Abhinav Jain, Praveen Venkateswaran, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Danish Contractor
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Learning from Multimodal Pseudo-Labels for Robust Open-Vocabulary Instance and Panoptic Segmentation

arXiv:2608. 11681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work addresses the challenge of open-vocabulary instance segmentation (OVIS) and open-set panoptic segmentation (OSPS), which aim to recognize both predefined and unseen object categories without exhaustive human annotations.

By Duy Tran Thanh, Yeejin Lee, Byeongkeun Kang
arXiv AI
Aug 13

G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Action

arXiv:2608. 11739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing recipe for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models couples a pretrained VLM with a separately trained flow-matching action expert.

By Yicheng Liu, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Tianyuan Yuan, Tao Jiang, Anqi Yang, Shicheng Cao, Haonan Liu, Yue Sun, Zihan Guo, Xiao Liu, Dong Ke, Changxun Pan, Chenru Wu, Tailai Cheng, Xiaoshu Ren, Xinlei Zhang, Jianning Cui, Zijie Zhao, Haoyu Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Shaoting Zhu, Shiduo Zhang, Hang Zhao