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112 posts tagged benchmarks.

  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen: What DeepMind Announced and What's Still Unconfirmed Nov 12, 2026
  • Fable 5.2 looks real, but the router matters Nov 11, 2026
  • NarrativeBench tests whether AI search shows the stories it leaves out Nov 10, 2026
  • A Generalist Model Beat Specialist Robot Policies Without a Single Demo Nov 9, 2026
  • FiLSim pushes graph similarity past toy graphs Nov 9, 2026
  • OpenAI's LifeVal and the gap between knowing and doing Nov 7, 2026
  • Scientist World Turns Research Papers Into Runnable Environments Nov 6, 2026
  • StepBack targets the first bad reasoning step instead of rerunning the whole chain Nov 6, 2026
  • The Label Wording Problem Nobody Tests in Agent Routers Nov 6, 2026
  • XStack turns ML repo migration into an agent benchmark Nov 6, 2026
  • Animal ID Models Need Evidence, Not Just Retrieval Scores Nov 5, 2026
  • Int8 embeddings look safe, binary embeddings still look expensive Nov 5, 2026
  • MedPhysBench Tests Whether Medical AI Can Catch the Mistakes It Can Solve Nov 4, 2026
  • WebHarbor Puts 153 Fake Real Websites in a Box for Agents to Train On Nov 3, 2026
  • LARC moves image reasoning out of token space Nov 2, 2026
  • Memdoor's Claim That Five Small Models Beat One Big One on Hard Coding Nov 1, 2026
  • What Gemini 4 Carbon Actually Tells Us (and What It Doesn't) Oct 28, 2026
  • What LLM Group Memory Keeps, and Why It Still Gets the Answer Wrong Oct 28, 2026
  • What LongChang's Altered-Physics Test Reveals About LLM Curiosity Oct 28, 2026
  • Wilson loops give relational attention a harder rule Oct 28, 2026
  • RobustRLlib maps the failure boundary for real-world RL Oct 26, 2026
  • Nanbeige4.3-33B is really a small-model bet Oct 25, 2026
  • When a Benchmark Claim Has No Benchmark Behind It Oct 25, 2026
  • BatchBench puts biomedical vision models through the real failure mode Oct 22, 2026
  • Quant-Arena Tests Whether LLMs Can Actually Build Trading Strategies Oct 22, 2026
  • Why the Best Solver Model Is Rarely the Best Environment Author Oct 22, 2026
  • What Arabic Dialect Math Problems Reveal About Model Reasoning Oct 21, 2026
  • An AI Agent That Reproduces Cancer Studies and Checks Where They Wobble Oct 19, 2026
  • PathFM Treats Forecasts as Paths, Not Quantile Spreads Oct 17, 2026
  • FDE-Gym Puts Agents in the Messy Last Mile of Customer Delivery Oct 16, 2026
  • Time-series models need two views, not one prettier chart Oct 16, 2026
  • When Models Behave Differently in Hindi Than in a Safety Test Oct 16, 2026
  • CoPE trains agents to forecast their own future actions Oct 15, 2026
  • PerSo splits persuasion into reading people and choosing the next move Oct 15, 2026
  • Robot demos get more useful when the model knows how messy they are Oct 14, 2026
  • Can vision-language models actually spot persuasion in memes? Oct 12, 2026
  • Meta’s Muse Wonder looks competitive, not crowned Oct 12, 2026
  • Wikipedia Game results show why AI search still needs guardrails Oct 12, 2026
  • A chatbot reliability formula is only useful if it predicts your failure mode Oct 10, 2026
  • What SpaceCast-Bench reveals about the gap between seeing space and predicting it Oct 10, 2026
  • SciExam Tests AI Agents on Climate Modeling Without Giving Them the Answer Oct 8, 2026
  • Scoring LLMs When There Is No Right Answer: A Lesson From Survey Economics Oct 8, 2026
  • When a hallucination enters the context, can the model talk itself out of it? Oct 8, 2026
  • OpenAI's Math Proofs on GitHub: What the Lean Files Actually Show Oct 7, 2026
  • Stratego Is a Better Agent Test Than Another Chess Win Oct 3, 2026
  • KaliBench Measures Whether LLMs Can Actually Type the Right Security Command Oct 2, 2026
  • ScholarCatalyst: When Agentic Search Can't Beat a Plain Embedding Oct 2, 2026
  • Grounded Entity Biographies: A Different Fix for Long-Video Memory Sep 30, 2026
  • The Harness Is the Model: What 'Meta-Skills for Agent Harness Design' Actually Shows Sep 30, 2026
  • One uncertainty layer for graph neural networks Sep 29, 2026
  • What LLMs Miss About Haitian Creole, and Why Low-Resource Culture Breaks Evals Sep 28, 2026
  • When Documentation Doesn't Help Coding Agents: A Negative Result Worth Reading Sep 28, 2026
  • Swift Qwen’s speed claim is a local AI reminder, measure the whole loop Sep 26, 2026
  • ExplorationBench and the Gap Between Recall and Real Discovery Sep 25, 2026
  • The Modality Gap in Speech Fact-Checking, and Why Retrieval Alone Doesn't Fix It Sep 25, 2026
  • SWE-Flux: The Benchmark That Asks If Coding Models Can Predict What Code Actually Does Sep 24, 2026
  • CliffCompaction makes long coding runs cheaper by refusing to summarize Sep 23, 2026
  • Speaker-Centered Memory: Why Group Chats Break Your AI Agent Sep 23, 2026
  • DolphinBench Tests Agent Memory by Task, Not Trivia Sep 22, 2026
  • Where Harness Self-Improvement Actually Stands in Late 2026 Sep 22, 2026
  • Full-Duplex Voice With Tool Calls: What NemotronLabs VoiceChat Actually Ships Sep 21, 2026
  • Benchmarks Do Not Settle the Open-Weight Risk Debate Sep 20, 2026
  • Decontamination reports are a promise, not a proof: the case for evaluation-side benchmarks Sep 20, 2026
  • Coding agents overclaim when their work is incomplete Sep 18, 2026
  • Paint-Anything makes hex colors a first-class diffusion control Sep 18, 2026
  • Double descent as an implicit regularization story Sep 17, 2026
  • MUSE tests vision-language models where classroom context gets messy Sep 17, 2026
  • When Rewording the Answer Key Reshuffles the Leaderboard Sep 17, 2026
  • Bellman Policy Optimization cuts one moving part from RLVR Sep 15, 2026
  • LLM personas fail when opinions have to change Sep 15, 2026
  • Real-SWE and the Case for Testing Coding Agents on Code They Have Never Seen Sep 13, 2026
  • An 86% Bitcoin quantum benchmark cut is not an 86% attack Sep 11, 2026
  • CRISPR screens need learned experiment pickers, not bigger chatbots Sep 11, 2026
  • MindTopo Tests Whether Vision Models Grasp Topology, Not Just Distances Sep 11, 2026
  • Geometry reasoning gets better when the model is not doing every job Sep 10, 2026
  • Instruction vs. Example: How Vision-Language Models Actually Moderate Content Sep 10, 2026
  • The Benchmark Says GPT-5. Your Users Get a Serving Route. Sep 10, 2026
  • Can AI Agents Do Their Own Interpretability Research? A New Benchmark Says Not Yet Sep 9, 2026
  • Terminal-Universe turns code-agent logs into reusable sandboxes Sep 4, 2026
  • Grading Coding Agents on How They Solve, Not Just Whether They Pass Sep 2, 2026
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 and the eval gap for smaller coding agents Aug 29, 2026
  • CorporateBench and the Gap Between Demo Scale and Company Scale Aug 28, 2026
  • MCR-Bench shows code review agents still lose the plot Aug 28, 2026
  • Coding agents still struggle with whole-repo migrations Aug 25, 2026
  • Names Alone Break Entity Matching Aug 25, 2026
  • Prime Agent treats the harness as part of the model Aug 25, 2026
  • VIALS exposes the lab gap in vision-language models Aug 24, 2026
  • Qwen 3.8’s benchmark buzz is about reasoning budget, not vibes Aug 22, 2026
  • What AI4AI-Bench Says About Recursive Self-Improvement Right Now Aug 21, 2026
  • GLM-5.3 and the problem with “top open-weight coding model” claims Aug 15, 2026
  • VICBench shows vulnerability detection still needs humans Aug 13, 2026
  • GeoBenchLLM Tests Whether LLMs Understand Place Aug 10, 2026
  • Benchmarks Need QA Before They Judge Agents Aug 7, 2026
  • The Harness Is the Product: What HarnessOpt-Bench Actually Measures Aug 7, 2026
  • Video deep research agents need to look before they search Aug 5, 2026
  • DungeonBench puts tactical reasoning where agents usually break Aug 3, 2026
  • The Blind Spot in AI-Text Detectors: Human Writing an LLM Touched Aug 3, 2026
  • What FriendBench Reveals About How Models Read Social Cues Aug 3, 2026
  • Learning Seiberg dualities tests AI search, not physics vibes Jul 31, 2026
  • ORCA-bench shows oncall agents are not ready for pager duty Jul 31, 2026
  • APEX-Accounting: The 2.6% Number That Should Scare AI Bookkeeping Startups Jul 30, 2026
  • GPT-5.6’s ARC gain came from two API settings Jul 30, 2026
  • The Office-Task Benchmark That Prices Agents Against Human Labor Jul 30, 2026
  • Inkling’s first real test is not the headline benchmark Jul 26, 2026
  • Goal prompting is not a solver for NP-hard search Jul 19, 2026
  • Kimi K3’s SpreadsheetBench win is a signal, not a coronation Jul 19, 2026
  • The One-Shot Trap in Agent Optimization Jul 16, 2026
  • Voice AI needs a human-quality test, not another pretty demo Jul 15, 2026
  • Speech agents need timing tests, not just cleaner audio Jul 7, 2026
  • Buccy Bench makes model progress look usefully stupid Jul 4, 2026
  • Speaker recognition is a better agent test than another chat demo Jul 3, 2026
  • TestEvo-Bench moves coding-agent evals closer to real maintenance Jul 3, 2026

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