Ideation Arena - Novelty: leaderboard

Ideation Arena (arXiv 2608.29696v1, Table 2): research proposals from 14 LLMs and five research-agent workflows on GPT-4o and DeepSeek V3.2, all given the same closed citation context, compared in 6,441 double-blind pairwise votes by 105 computer-science researchers. Bradley-Terry Elo for methodological uniqueness and depth; higher is better.

Metric: Elo (Bradley-Terry over expert pairwise votes). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around April 2027. 24 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.11208.6#145
2Claude Opus 4.51141.3#87
3Kimi K2 (Thinking)1132.8#252 (Kimi K2)
4Claude Sonnet 4.51131.2#148
5Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)1088.4#90
6Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)1082.3#71
7DeepSeek V3.21081.8#210
8Mistral Large 31081.2#410
9GLM-4.71080.7#202
10O31064.6#132
11Grok 4 Fast1010#266
12Grok 4967.7#189
13Qwen 3 Max935.6#213
14GPT-4o881.3#357

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=ideation-arena-novelty · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.