ESF-Bench - Conversation Understanding: leaderboard

ESF-Bench (ServiceNow, 2026) slot accuracy on slots tagged with the Conversation Understanding scenario category: references to earlier turns, rhetorical proposals and assistant suggestions the user accepts. In percent, higher is better.

Metric: Tagged slot accuracy (%; slots tagged with a CU (Conversation Understanding) scenario, references to earlier turns, rhetorical proposals and assistant suggestions the user accepts; 810 synthetic multi-turn enterprise slot-filling samples (6,530 slots, 8 domains) whose prompts combine a schema, a user-assistant conversation and auxiliary sources; varied output formats mapped to a standard form before exact comparison with the ground truth; 32k maximum tokens, reasoning setting as printed per model). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.1 (High)93.1#229 (GPT-5.1)
2GPT-OSS-120B (High)89.8#700 (GPT-OSS-120B)
3Gemini 2.5 Flash89#453
4Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-251288.6#1396
5Qwen 3 32B (Thinking)86.6#960 (Qwen 3 32B)
6GPT-OSS-120B (Low)86.6#700 (GPT-OSS-120B)
7GPT-5.1 (Non-reasoning)82.5#229 (GPT-5.1)
8Gemini 2.5 Flash (Non-reasoning)76.5#453 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
9Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-251269.9#1593
10Qwen 3 32B (Non-reasoning)61.8#960 (Qwen 3 32B)

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=esf-bench-conversation-understanding · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.