HFEPX Benchmark Hub
AIME or HotpotQA or MMLU Benchmark Papers
Updated from current HFEPX corpus (2026-10-22). This page tracks 60 papers reporting AIME or HotpotQA or MMLU benchmark evidence, with protocol and metric context for comparison.
HFEPX Benchmark Hub
Updated from current HFEPX corpus (2026-10-22). This page tracks 60 papers reporting AIME or HotpotQA or MMLU benchmark evidence, with protocol and metric context for comparison.
Use this page for benchmark-matched method comparisons and eval protocol selection. Quality band: High .
High-Signal Coverage
100.0%
60 / 60 sampled papers are not low-signal flagged.
Replication-Ready Set
41
Papers with explicit benchmark + metric + eval mode fields.
Quality Controls
3.3%
2 papers report calibration/adjudication/IAA controls.
Primary action: Start with the top 2 benchmark-matched papers, then compare evaluation modes in the protocol matrix.
Ranked by protocol completeness so you can quickly find papers suitable for comparison studies.
Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 8.5
Eval: Automatic Metrics · Metrics: Accuracy
Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 8.5
Eval: Automatic Metrics · Metrics: Accuracy
Aug 19, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 8.0
Eval: Automatic Metrics · Metrics: Accuracy
Aug 21, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 8.0
Eval: Automatic Metrics · Metrics: Accuracy
May 6, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 7.5
Eval: Automatic Metrics · Metrics: F1
Jul 2, 2026 · Citations: 0 · Score: 7.5
Eval: Automatic Metrics, Simulation Env · Metrics: Accuracy
Compare protocol ingredients quickly before deep-reading full papers.
| Paper | Eval Modes | Human Feedback | Metrics | Quality Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating and Benchmarking the System One Model Jev Sep 29, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Rubric Rating | Accuracy, F1 | Not reported |
| Authority Bias in Language Models: Source Deference and User Agreement Are Not Interchangeable Sep 29, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Pairwise Preference | Accuracy | Not reported |
| Decomposing Wrong-Consensus Agreement in LLM Self-Consistency Aug 19, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Pairwise Preference | Accuracy | Not reported |
| Memory Augmentation Unlocks Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Aug 21, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Demonstrations | Accuracy, Latency | Not reported |
| CAR: Query-Guided Confidence-Aware Reranking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation May 6, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Pairwise Preference | F1, Ndcg | Not reported |
| Will Scaling Improve Social Simulation with LLMs? Jul 2, 2026 | Automatic Metrics, Simulation Env | Not reported | Accuracy | Calibration |
| Cliff Tokens: Identifying Single-Token Failure Triggers in LLM Mathematical Reasoning Jun 24, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Pairwise Preference | Accuracy, Pass@64 | Not reported |
| What RL Brings to Reasoning: A Few Decisions the Base Model Would Not Make Oct 17, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Not reported | Pass@1 | Not reported |
| EdgeRock: Strong Reasoning at Constant Memory Oct 7, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Not reported | Pass@1, Throughput | Not reported |
| When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following Oct 14, 2026 | Automatic Metrics | Not reported | Accuracy | Not reported |
Gap: Human feedback
Human feedback is present in 10 of 60 papers.
Gap: Quality controls
Quality controls is present in 2 of 60 papers.
Strong: Benchmarks
Benchmarks is present in 60 of 60 papers.
Strong: Metrics
Metrics is present in 44 of 60 papers.
Gap: Known rater population
Known rater population is present in 8 of 60 papers.
Moderate: Known annotation unit
Known annotation unit is present in 13 of 60 papers.
Evaluation Modes
Human Feedback Mix
Top Benchmarks
Top Metrics
Xiqi Hao, Zengqing Wu, Yu-Xuan Qiu, Chuan Xiao, Ruiqi Xu · May 30, 2026 · Citations: 0
Multi-agent debate (MAD) among large language models (LLMs) is often judged by answer changes and convergence, yet these outcomes alone cannot establish that peers improved the answer.
Siyu Zhang, Yuquan Lu, Yoshua Y. Li, Yifan Ding, Kun Zeng · Oct 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Huishan Ji, Weiming Zhang, Qirui Ye, Jinchao Xu, Yike Guo · Oct 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Jian Li · Oct 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Because trace deletion alone cannot reveal which source an answer follows, evaluations should report both properties together with the answer configuration.
Edan Kinderman, Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau, Brian Chmiel, Ron Banner · Oct 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Jinhyeok Kim, Hye-Young Jung · Oct 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Jingyuan Fan, Purui Liu, Hengbo Xiao, Yuxuan Zheng, Jingzhao Zhang · Sep 17, 2025 · Citations: 0
Results show that PiERN achieves not only higher accuracy than directly finetuning LLMs but also significant improvements in response latency, token usage, GPU energy consumption, and experts routing accuracy compared with mainstream…
Chenliang Li, Adel Elmahdy, Alex Boyd, Zhongruo Wang, Siliang Zeng · Nov 25, 2025 · Citations: 0
To address these challenges, we propose SORL, Stabilizing Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Agent Train- ing.
Pierre-Carl Langlais, Pavel Chizhov, Mattia Nee, Carlos Rosas-Hinostroza, Matthieu Delsart · Apr 25, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pleias-RAG-350m and Pleias-RAG-1B outperform SLMs below 4 billion parameters on standardized RAG benchmarks (HotpotQA, 2wiki) and are competitive with popular larger models, including Qwen-2.5-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and Gemma-3-4B.
Keshav Ramji, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo · Oct 5, 2026 · Citations: 0
We demonstrate that Bayesian Cheatsheet achieves clear performance gains relative to existing memory modules across reasoning benchmarks such as AIME'25, Omni-MATH, and PhysReason, even in the cold-start setting.
Mehrdad Ghassabi, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani, Pedram Rostami, Sadra Hakim, Zahra Kazemi · Aug 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
This training improved performance on a translated medical MMLU benchmark from 46.64% to 49.31%.
Joel Anto Paul, Litu Rout, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai · Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
Applied to DiffusionGemma-26B, TADM:Post-train improves throughput by approximately 49% to 79% on several math, code, and STEM benchmarks (GSM8K, AIME26, GPQA-Diamond, LiveCodeBench-v6, HumanEval, MMLU-Pro).
Md. Ismail Hossain, Humaira Kousar, Isidora Chara Tourni · Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
We separate these roles in a factorial analysis and find that scaffold correctness has a stronger effect on downstream accuracy than context correctness.
Tobias Deußer, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Rafet Sifa · Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
We evaluate Jev (jev-1.13.0) zero-shot on 37 datasets spanning classification, routing, natural language inference, reading comprehension, commonsense reasoning, moderation, legal clause analysis and rubric scoring, with one frozen template…
Abhinav Rajeev Kumar, Paras Chopra · Sep 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
In three open-weight families, removing a fitted source direction lowers source compliance by 65-80 percentage points while removing a user or assistant direction has far smaller effects, and removing the user direction shows the reverse…
Lizhuo Zhang, Mengmeng Tang, Chenfeng Long, Xiaoyong Tang, Xiang Luo · Aug 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
The mechanical reference is leak-free: each case's preference and accuracy are estimated from its other runs only.
Minsoo Song, Chanjun Park · Aug 31, 2026 · Citations: 0
To provide a scalable diagnostic approach, we propose a two-component probabilistic framework for auditing MCQA benchmarks using model output distributions.
Yang Zhao, Chengxiao Dai, Mengying Kou, Yue Xiu, Dusit Niyato · Jan 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
We present SHARD-MEMO, an agentic memory system built on scope-before-routing: metadata predicates first identify the admissible shards, and a learned router then selects a small number of them for shard-local approximate nearest neighbor…
Dhruv Deshmukh, Saurabh Goyal, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee · Dec 18, 2025 · Citations: 0
Kascade achieves up to 4.1x speedup in decode attention and 2.2x speedup in prefill attention over FlashAttention-3 baseline on H100 GPUs while closely matching dense attention accuracy on long-context benchmarks such as LongBench and…
Ruotong Liao, Nikolai Röhrich, Xiaohan Wang, Yuhui Zhang, Yasaman Samadzadeh · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Haodong Zhao, Jidong Li, Zhaomin Wu, Tianjie Ju, Zhuosheng Zhang · Sep 25, 2025 · Citations: 0
Understanding persuasion is critical for the safety and reliability of multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs).
Simeng Zhang, Yilong Chen, Wenyuan Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yao Chen · Aug 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
Based on this principle, we propose Memory-Augmented Compression, a training-free framework that constructs reusable reasoning memories from historical traces and retrieves them as prefill-side scaffolds.
Zhibo Zhang, Zhen Ouyang, Ling Shi, Kailong Wang · Aug 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Qian Kou, Xiaofeng Shi, Xiaosong Qiu, Hua Zhou · Aug 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Zlatan Feric, Amir Taherin, Yanzhi Wang, David Kaeli · Aug 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Weimeng Luo · Aug 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
We adapt S2G-RAG's structured sufficiency-and-gap judgment to a frozen Search-R1 pipeline and train a Qwen3.5-2B judge on 3,009 states from 900 disjoint HotpotQA questions.
Xinlong Xu, Yoshua Y. Li · Aug 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Zhixuan Liu, Zhichen Dong, Yuanfu Wang, Chao Yang · Aug 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Zhipeng Song, Yizhi Zhou, Xiangyu Kong, Jiulong Jiao, Xuezhou Ye · May 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
CAR converts these confidence changes into coarse precedence constraints and returns the feasible ranking with minimum Kendall distance from the baseline, preserving existing pairwise preferences unless generator-side evidence supports…
Yuchao Wu, Junqin Li, XingCheng Liang, Yongjie Chen, Yinghao Liang · Aug 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
Experiments on HotpotQA, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and MuSiQue show that SAG achieves the best retrieval and end-to-end QA performance on every benchmark, with gains that widen as reasoning-chain complexity increases.
Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek, Udi barzelay · Aug 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Evolutionary optimization of LLM prompts and agentic programs (e.g., GEPA) is dominated by fitness evaluation: scoring each candidate runs an answering LLM over a validation set, so the evaluator's price tier dictates total search cost.
Shailja Thakur, Sungeun An, Chad DeLuca, Hima Patel · Aug 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
A benchmark score comes from a single phrasing of each problem.
Zhenyu Zhao, Sander Land, Daniel M. Bikel, Waseem Alshikh · Apr 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
Across three model families and five mathematical reasoning benchmarks, our approach shortens reasoning traces by 8.1% on average; under a TOST equivalence analysis at a +/- 2pp margin, accuracy is equivalent or inconclusive on 13/15 model…
Caleb Ziems, William Held, Su Doga Karaca, David Grusky, Tatsunori Hashimoto · Jul 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
We use scaling laws to study the relationship between LLMs' compute scale, general capability benchmarks, and the fidelity of social simulation in three representative sub-domains: opinion modeling, behavioral simulation, and longitudinal…
Xiangdong Zhang, Debing Zhang, Shaofeng Zhang, Xiaohan Qin, Yu Cheng · May 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Andikawati P Widjaja, Yongjun Kim, Hyounghun Kim, Jaeho Lee · Jul 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
Across eight benchmarks (including MMLU, GSM8K, and RULER) and three model families (Qwen2.5, Llama3.2, Gemma4), PartRep retains most of the gains of full repetition while using only 59.4\% of its KV cache and 79.0\% of its prefill FLOPs.
Ananto Nayan Bala · Jul 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Kevin Yandoka Denamganaï · May 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
Self-evolving scientific agents capable of conquering the hard tail of formal mathematics require Compositional Learning Behaviours (CLBs) -- the capacity to ground and recombine novel symbolic structures in context, beyond mere…
Subhadip Mitra · Jun 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
Inference-time safety methods for large language models have proliferated, yet no systematic comparison exists.
Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Binqi Shen, Lier Jin, Hanyu Cai, Lan Hu, Yuting Xin · May 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
Unlike existing evaluations that compare methods in isolation, the proposed framework enables decision-oriented analysis.
Jaeyong Ko, Pilsung Kang, Yukyung Lee · Jun 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Across seven models and three mathematical reasoning benchmarks (GSM1K, MATH500, AIME 2025), cliff tokens act as failure triggers; deleting the first cliff token and resampling recovers pass@64 to 1.0, while keeping it limits recovery to…
Tianyu Dong, Yangyang Liu, Jiang Zhou, Xinwei Wu, Xiaohu Zhao · Jun 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
We conduct experiments on 2 LLMs across 5 low-resource languages and 3 benchmarks.
Chenhao Dang, Jing Ma, Mingjie Liao · Jun 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
On The Pile benchmark, HDS reaches the final validation perplexity of the next best method with 44% fewer training iterations.
Fengfeng Liang, Yuechen Zhang, Jiaya Jia · Jun 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Ali Asgarov, Umid Suleymanov, Aadyant Khatri · Oct 31, 2025 · Citations: 0
We introduce SIGMA (Search-Augmented On-Demand Knowledge Integration for AGentic Mathematical reAsoning), a unified framework that orchestrates specialized agents to independently reason, perform targeted searches, and synthesize findings…
Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom, Mika Okamoto, Rayan Castilla · Jun 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Training-data attribution measures how strongly each training document influences a model's predictions on a benchmark, but document-level scores are too noisy to identify which corpus regions support which capabilities, and prior work has…
Anany Kotawala · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
Across two public LLM leaderboards, many displayed pairwise rankings do not meet a conventional paired-test resolution target under the actual paired evaluation design: 11 of 40 Open LLM Leaderboard v1 pairwise comparisons and 4 of 9…
Siddharth Boppana, Annabel Ma, Max Loeffler, Raphael Sarfati, Eric Bigelow · Mar 5, 2026 · Citations: 0
Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ayan Sengupta, Suparna Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Amlan Chakrabarti · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
Large language models (LLMs) frequently achieve impressive scores on standardized benchmarks, yet accuracy alone offers a limited view of their capabilities.
Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin · Jun 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
Extensive evaluations across multiple models and reasoning tasks (AIME-2024, GPQA-Diamond, and LiveCodeBench) demonstrate that STAND reduces inference latency by 60-65% compared to standard autoregressive decoding while maintaining…
Andrea Sassella, Andrea Chizzola, Tommaso Bianchi, Luca Alessandrelli, Mark James Carman · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
This report benchmarks the performance of ENGINEERING Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.'s EngGPT2MoE-16B-A3B LLM, a 16B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters.
Tianyi Huang, Samuel Xu, Jason Tansong Dang, Samuel Yan, Kimberley Yin · Apr 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Agentic systems often fail not by being entirely wrong, but by being too precise: a response may be generally useful while particular claims exceed what the evidence supports.
Qiyong Zhong, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song, Xin Lin, Jie Sun · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
To address this, we propose SOD, a step-wise on-policy distillation framework for small language model agents, which adaptively reweights distillation strength at each step based on step-level divergence.
Tsuyoshi Okita · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
With a 7B-parameter LLM whose weights are entirely frozen, CIKA achieves 69.7\% on the contamination-free Omni-MATH-Rule benchmark and 64.0\% overall, compared to 60.5\% for o1-mini, and 97.2\% on GSM8K, 46--50\% on AIME 2024--2026, and…
Zhichao Yan, Yunxiao Zhao, Jiapu Wang, Jiaoyan Chen, Xiaoli Li · Jan 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
Current evaluation methods for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) suffer from factual myopia: they relentlessly emphasize factual accuracy yet neglect global logical integrity in long-form answer generation.
Qianjia Cheng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Yuxin Zuo, Shunkai Zhang · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
Paradoxically, we observe that tool-enabled evaluation can degrade reasoning performance even when the strong thinking models make almost no actual tool calls.
Solomon Messing · Apr 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
LLM evaluations drive which models get deployed, what safety standards get adopted, which research conclusions get published, and how projections of AI's labor-market impact get made.
Xiaoyu Xu, Minxin Du, Kun Fang, Yaxin Xiao, Zhicong Huang · Jan 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
Furthermore, to facilitate rigorous evaluation, we introduce PCH, a unified benchmark encompassing Personal, Copyrighted, and Harmful content, alongside two symmetric metrics, Forget Degree (F.D.) and Retain Utility (R.U.), to…
Weiqin Wang, Yile Wang, Kehao Chen, Hui Huang · Dec 17, 2025 · Citations: 0
We conduct experiments across various models and benchmarks, experimental results show that SCOPE consistently outperforms recent baselines.