HoWToBench: leaderboard

Metric: Tree-of-Writing score: GPT-4o rates each content trait 1-10 against the human reference and format traits 0, 5 or 10, combined with per-instruction LLM-assigned weights that sum to 1, mean over all 1,302 Chinese writing instructions (completion, outline-guided and open-ended writing in 12 genres) of HoWToBench; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1O3 Mini (2025-01-31)5.86
2GPT-4o (2024-11-20)5.81
3Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)5.58
4Gemini 2.0 Flash5.43
5Claude 3 Haiku (20240307)5.01
6Llama 3.3 70B Instruct4.59

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