ES-MemEval QA (RAG) - Temporal Reasoning: leaderboard

Questions on the order of events and how they depend on each other over time (236 questions). ES-MemEval (Chen et al., Tongji University, 2026) asks questions about the long emotional-support chat histories of 18 virtual users (about 22 sessions and 13K tokens each), scored by token-level F1 in percent against human-checked reference answers; higher is better. The model answers from the four most relevant full sessions, retrieved with bge-m3 from a FAISS index.

Metric: Token-level F1 (%; answers scored against human-checked reference answers; questions that order events and follow how they depend on each other over time; 236 questions; bge-m3 retrieval of the four most relevant full sessions from a FAISS index). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 5 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o27.6#741
2GPT-3.5 Turbo26.5#2773
3Mistral Small 3.118.4#1699
4Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct16.8#3623
5Ministral-8B-Instruct-241013.3#4720

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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