Re:Benchmarks in Leipzig
by christianstump on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:44AM
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You are 100% correct with your assessment of the situation. But I do not agree with either of your conclusions:
1. These questions cannot and must not be compared as being similar to homework questions. These are different leagues and possibly even different sports.
2. The "more useful benchmark" that you suggest is already present in the data as we ran every model exactly once in Stage 1.
If you look at Table 3 you can see the difference in performance between for example GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 for each of the 20x 100 runs:
- GPT 5.5: 1389/2000 questions answered, of which 1043 were correct (75%)
- Opus: 1306/2000 questions answered, of which 294 were correct (22%)
So while you can claim that Opus solved 40% of the problems it still had a failure rate of 78%. That means if you chose this model to answer your homework question, there is a good chance you would fail.
Perhaps a more useful benchmark for future models is measuring how many of these types of questions they can answer in one shot. I.e. how confident can you be when using them for real world tasks.