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Everything you need to understand and effectively use AI benchmark data

Essential Resources

Understanding AI Benchmarks

Guide

Comprehensive guide to how AI benchmarks work, why they matter, and how to interpret scores.

Papers With Code

Database

Explore the latest research papers with code implementations and benchmark results.

HuggingFace Leaderboards

Platform

Interactive leaderboards for various AI benchmarks with model comparisons.

Stanford AI Index

Report

Annual report tracking AI progress across multiple dimensions including benchmarks.

Benchmark Categories Explained

Understanding the different types of benchmarks and what they measure

Knowledge & Reasoning

Benchmarks evaluating general knowledge, logical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities.

Examples:MMLUMMLU-ProARCGPQAHellaSwagTruthfulQA
Coding & Software Engineering

Evaluating code generation, debugging, and software engineering capabilities.

Examples:HumanEvalSWE-benchMBPPBigCodeBenchLiveCodeBench
Mathematics

Testing mathematical reasoning from elementary to competition-level problems.

Examples:MATHGSM8KAIMECodeforcesFrontierMath
Multimodal Understanding

Benchmarks requiring vision-language understanding and cross-modal reasoning.

Examples:MMMUMathVistaChartQAVQA
Agent & Tool Use

Evaluating autonomous agents, API usage, and tool manipulation abilities.

Examples:BFCLWebArenaToolBenchGAIAAgentBench
Long Context

Testing models on processing and reasoning over extended text sequences.

Examples:InfiniteBenchLongBenchRULERNeedle in Haystack

Guides & Tutorials

How to Read Benchmark Scores

Learn what benchmark scores mean and how to compare models effectively.

  • Understanding percentage scores and their meaning
  • Comparing models across different benchmarks
  • Recognizing benchmark saturation
  • Interpreting human baseline comparisons

Choosing the Right Model

Use benchmark data to select the best model for your specific use case.

  • Mapping your task to benchmark categories
  • Balancing performance vs. cost
  • Understanding model strengths and weaknesses
  • When to prioritize different capabilities

Benchmark Limitations

Critical understanding of what benchmarks don't measure.

  • Training data contamination concerns
  • Gap between benchmark and real-world performance
  • Benchmark gaming and overfitting
  • What scores don't tell you about usability

Community & API