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LAB-Bench LitQA2

Literature-retrieval questions whose answers require findings in full research papers rather than titles or abstracts.

Benchmark definition

What is counted

Version
repository-998a8e0
Total
248 (questions across public and private splits)
Task formats
multiple choice
Capabilities
RetrievalEvidence synthesisScientific reasoning
Modalities
TextPaper or documentWeb

Version history

VersionStatusRelease / as-ofTotalFormal tracks
paper-v3
lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3
active2024-07-17248 (questions across public and private splits)None registered
repository-998a8e0
lab-bench-litqa2-repository-998a8e0
current2025-09-27248 (questions across public and private splits)None registered

Tracks and subsets

IDCountBasisPartition?Notes
Public split
lab-bench-litqa2-public
199questionsExclusive & exhaustiveReleased in the official repository and Hugging Face dataset.
Private contamination-monitoring split
lab-bench-litqa2-private
49questionsExclusive & exhaustiveIDs are published; question contents are withheld.

Scientific Task Atlas

Scientific task classification

complete for repository-998a8e0. Single-purpose formal LAB-Bench track.

Scientific taskCoverageCountMappingEvidence
Scientific evidence interpretationexplicitly-in-scope248 questions
questions across public and private splits
official-track
high confidence
lab-bench-litqa2-evidence-paper
Full-paper evidence retrieval and interpretation.

Evaluation registry

Works and run settings

A setting change—scope, prompt, tools, budget, grader, or repeats—creates a separate run. Charts never cross a comparability group.

lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-toolsvpaper-v3

Evaluated models / systems: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620), Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307), Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229), Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001), GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported), GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported), Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)

Scopefull · n=248
Shots0
Turnssingle-turn
System prompt publicYes
Reasoning / effortzero-shot chain-of-thought
BrowserNo
InternetNo
DatabasesNo
Code executionNo
ContainerNo
External toolsNo
Token budgetNot reported
Time / cost budgetNot reported
TemperatureNot reported
SeedNot reported
Repeats3
Graderregex multiple-choice parser with Claude 2 fallback · model: Claude 2 fallback parser · human review: no
Statisticsmean across three runs per model
Contaminationfull pre-release snapshot with 80% later public and 20% private contamination-monitoring splits
Metrics, results, and full protocol

Metrics

MetricKind / baselineUnitAggregationThreshold / tolerance
Accuracyabsoluteproportioncorrect / all questions; mean over three runsexact choice
Precision (selective accuracy)absoluteproportioncorrect / attempted questions; mean over three runsinsufficient-information responses excluded from denominator
Coverageabsoluteproportionattempted / all questions; mean over three runsinsufficient-information responses treated as not attempted

Results

ModelMetricValuen
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Accuracy0.06 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Precision (selective accuracy)0.47 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Coverage0.12 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Accuracy0.06 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Precision (selective accuracy)0.43 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Coverage0.14 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Accuracy0.1 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Precision (selective accuracy)0.44 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Coverage0.23 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Accuracy0.27 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Precision (selective accuracy)0.46 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Coverage0.58 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Accuracy0.12 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Precision (selective accuracy)0.4 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Coverage0.31 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Accuracy0.27 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Precision (selective accuracy)0.38 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Coverage0.7 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Accuracy0.35 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Precision (selective accuracy)0.38 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Coverage0.92 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
248

Evidence

  • section: Appendix D.1–D.4; Table 1 and Appendix Table 6 (Full scope, zero-shot chain-of-thought prompt, no tools, three runs, exact metrics, parser, and model identities.) — supports /benchmark_version, /model_ids, /scope, /protocol, /metrics
  • table: Tables 2–4, row LitQA2 (Accuracy, precision, and coverage. Human row excluded.) — supports /results

Comparable result views

Accuracy

lab-bench-litqa2-creator-mcq · lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

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ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.06lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.06lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.1lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.27lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.12lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.27lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)0.35lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Precision (selective accuracy)

lab-bench-litqa2-creator-mcq · lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

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ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.47lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.43lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.44lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.46lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.4lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.38lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)0.38lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Coverage

lab-bench-litqa2-creator-mcq · lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

CSV ↓
Accessible data table
ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.12lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.14lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.23lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.58lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.31lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.7lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)0.92lab-bench-litqa2-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Evidence and change history

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LAB-Bench: Measuring Capabilities of Language Models for Biology Research · section: Table 1; Appendix Tables 2–6; task description for LitQA2 (Task definition, total count, creator protocol, and result row.) · Supports 17 fields

Open source →

  • /name
  • /organizations
  • /release_date
  • /kind
  • /domains
  • /capabilities
  • /modalities
  • /task_counts/total
  • /task_counts/basis
  • /task_counts/subsets
  • /coverage_notes
  • /access/level
  • /access/license
  • /versions/0/task_counts/total
  • /versions/0/task_counts/basis
  • /versions/0/task_counts/subsets
  • /scientific_task_classification/entries/0
lab-bench-litqa2-repository-resource · repository-path: LitQA2/litqa-v2-splits.json; LitQA2/litqa-v2-public.jsonl where present; task.py at 998a8e0a40cf116c80e1b0e7a805ebb5fb9fa838 (Public/private/total 199/49/248.) · Supports 13 fields

Open source →

  • /latest_version
  • /task_counts/total
  • /task_counts/basis
  • /task_counts/subsets
  • /access/level
  • /access/tasks
  • /access/artifacts
  • /access/grader
  • /access/license
  • /resources
  • /versions/1/task_counts/total
  • /versions/1/task_counts/basis
  • /versions/1/task_counts/subsets

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