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 13

FunnelCausalNet: Funnel-aware Joint Conversion-Revenue Uplift for Multi-tier Coupon Allocation

arXiv:2608. 11675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coupon campaigns seek to lift both conversion and revenue, but gross merchandise value (GMV) follows a deterministic funnel from conversion to conditional order value and is zero-inflated and heavy-tailed.

By Yu Zhang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Zhihan Wang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Guanlin Chen (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Min Jiang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Shuai Li (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China)
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Towards Query-Agnostic RAG Evaluation via Query Coverage and Claim Verifiability

arXiv:2608. 11238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation improves the factuality of large language models by grounding responses in retrieved evidence, yet existing evaluation frameworks struggle to provide consistent, fine-grained diagnostics across the diverse spectrum of user queries, ranging from close-ended fact-seeking to open-ended explanatory requests.

By Jeonghwan Choi, Taewon Yun, Minjeong Ban, Gyeonghun Sun, Jae-Gil Lee, Hwanjun Song
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