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“Ganges River Delta”, Bay of Bengal“Ganges River Delta”, Bay of Bengal

GlobeBench

A benchmark for whether text world models keep track of state, rules and side effects.

Nicholas Saban, Charvi Bannur, Mariya Vasileva, Darshan Deshpande
arXiv 2610.22708
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
October 15, 2026
Workshop
globebench
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22708
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
“Byrd Glacier”, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica“Byrd Glacier”, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

SpeedrunBench

Video game speedrunning as a test of whether agents can beat strategies humans already know.

Yoshinari Fujinuma, Keisuke Kamahori, Ryuto Koike, Abdelrahman Madkour, Varun Prashant Gangal, Monty Bichouna, Martyna Markiewicz, Shivani Jain, Duncan Curtis, Rebecca Qian, Anand Kannappan
arXiv 2610.08076
September 3, 2026
speedrunbench
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08076
“Melted Colors”, Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia“Melted Colors”, Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia

FigmaTrace

Human design workflows in Figma, captured as training data for creative design tasks.

Darshan Deshpande, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Martyna Markiewicz, Devanshu Bansal, Shivani Jain, Nicholas Saban, Chirag Maheshwari, Anand Kannappan
arXiv 2608.21460
August 20, 2026
figmatrace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21460
“Serene Expressions”, off the Louisiana coast“Serene Expressions”, off the Louisiana coast

HalluWorld

A controlled benchmark that measures hallucination against reference world models.

Emmy Liu, Varun Prashant Gangal, Michael Yu, Zhuofu Tao, Karan Singh, Sachin Kumar, Steven Y. Feng
arXiv 2605.19341
NeurIPS 2026
May 19, 2026
Main
halluworld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19341
NeurIPS 2026
“Earth’s Aquarium”, Bering Sea“Earth’s Aquarium”, Bering Sea

World Modeling for Agentic RL

A language model that stands in for an environment while an agent trains.

Darshan Deshpande
arXiv 2607.16204
NeurIPS 2026
May 7, 2026
Main
world-modeling-for-agentic-rl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16204
NeurIPS 2026
“Luminescence”, Suwannee River plume, Gulf of Mexico“Luminescence”, Suwannee River plume, Gulf of Mexico

Prompt Infilling for Diffusion LMs

Teaching diffusion language models to fill in prompts, not only responses.

Yoshinari Fujinuma, Keisuke Sakaguchi
arXiv 2604.03677
COLM 2026 Workshop
April 4, 2026
Workshop
prompt-infilling-for-diffusion-lms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03677
COLM 2026 Workshop
“Konari, Iran”, Zagros Mountains“Konari, Iran”, Zagros Mountains

DETOUR

A two-agent benchmark for tip-of-the-tongue search across several turns.

Li Siyan, Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2602.00352
ACL 2026 GEM Workshop
January 30, 2026
Workshop
detour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00352
ACL 2026 GEM Workshop
“Alluvial Fan”, Taklimakan Desert, China“Alluvial Fan”, Taklimakan Desert, China

TRACE

54 kinds of reward exploit in code RL, and how well models catch them.

Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2601.20103
ICML 2026
January 27, 2026
Main
trace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20103
ICML 2026
“Meighen Island”, Canadian Arctic“Meighen Island”, Canadian Arctic

Unified Hallucination Framework

One definition of hallucination: inaccurate world modeling.

Emmy Liu, Varun Prashant Gangal, Chelsea Zou, Michael Yu, Xiaoqi Huang, Alex Chang, Zhuofu Tao, Karan Singh, Sachin Kumar, Steven Y. Feng
arXiv 2512.21577
ICML 2026
December 25, 2025
Main
unified-hallucination-framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21577
ICML 2026
“A Study in Color”, Kenya“A Study in Color”, Kenya

Generative Simulators

Environments that generate their own tasks, world dynamics and rewards.

Rebecca Qian, Darshan Deshpande, Varun Prashant Gangal, Li Siyan
Technical report (PDF)
December 17, 2025
generative-simulators
“Copper and Blue”, Northwest Territories, Canada“Copper and Blue”, Northwest Territories, Canada

Contrastive Decoding for LLM Judges

Reducing score range bias when language models act as judges.

Yoshinari Fujinuma
arXiv 2510.18196
Findings of ACL 2026
October 21, 2025
Main
contrastive-decoding-for-llm-judges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18196
Findings of ACL 2026
“Desert Ribbons”, Morocco“Desert Ribbons”, Morocco

MEMTRACK

Testing whether agents keep track of facts spread across workplace tools.

Darshan Deshpande, Varun Prashant Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian, Peng Wang
arXiv 2510.01353
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
October 1, 2025
Workshop
memtrack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01353
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
“Capillaries”, Meta River, Colombia–Venezuela border“Capillaries”, Meta River, Colombia–Venezuela border

TRAIL

A benchmark for finding the step where an agent went wrong.

Darshan Deshpande, Varun Prashant Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Jitin Krishnan, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2505.08638
May 13, 2025
trail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08638
“Icy Vortex”, Foxe Basin, northern Canada“Icy Vortex”, Foxe Basin, northern Canada

BLUR

573 tip-of-the-tongue questions that need search, reasoning and tool use.

Sky CH-Wang, Darshan Deshpande, Smaranda Muresan, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2503.19193
ACL 2025
March 24, 2025
Main
blur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19193
ACL 2025
“Himalayas”, Eastern Himalaya, southwestern China“Himalayas”, Eastern Himalaya, southwestern China

Humanity’s Last Exam

A multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge.

Center for AI Safety, Scale AI et al.
arXiv 2501.14249
Nature
January 24, 2025
Main
humanitys-last-exam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14249
Nature
“Slessor Glacier”, Antarctica“Slessor Glacier”, Antarctica

GLIDER

A small, explainable judge model for grading LLM interactions.

Darshan Deshpande, Selvan Sunitha Ravi, Sky CH-Wang, Bartosz Mielczarek, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2412.14140
December 18, 2024
glider-sota-slm-judge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14140
“Re-entry”, Jebel Kissu, Sudan“Re-entry”, Jebel Kissu, Sudan

Lynx

An open-source model for detecting hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation.

Selvan Sunitha Ravi, Bartosz Mielczarek, Anand Kannappan, Douwe Kiela, Rebecca Qian
arXiv 2407.08488
July 11, 2024
lynx-hallucination-detection-model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08488
“Desert Patterns”, Erg Chech, Algeria“Desert Patterns”, Erg Chech, Algeria

FinanceBench

Open-book financial question answering about publicly traded companies.

Pranab Islam, Anand Kannappan, Douwe Kiela, Rebecca Qian, Nino Scherrer, Bertie Vidgen
arXiv 2311.11944
November 20, 2023
financebench
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11944
“Guinea-Bissau”, West Africa“Guinea-Bissau”, West Africa

SimpleSafetyTests

100 prompts for finding critical safety risks in language models.

Bertie Vidgen, Nino Scherrer, Hannah Rose Kirk, Rebecca Qian, Anand Kannappan, Scott A. Hale, Paul Röttger
arXiv 2311.08370
November 14, 2023
simplesafetytests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08370
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