ISA-Bench - SIC-1: leaderboard

Metric: Tasks solved (%; share of the 31 SIC-1 tasks (a single-instruction computer: subtract and branch if not positive) whose program passes every verification case in the game's own parser, virtual machine and verifier; up to five attempts with parse, runtime or per-test execution feedback; Ollama default builds, temperature 0.7, 4,096 output tokens). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1ISA-Bench Gemma-4 31B (Thinking, Ollama build)41.94
2ISA-Bench Qwen3 32B (Thinking, Ollama build)12.9
3ISA-Bench Devstral-Small-2 (Ollama build)9.68
4ISA-Bench Qwen3 8B (Thinking, Ollama build)9.68
5ISA-Bench Qwen3 14B (Thinking, Ollama build)6.45
6ISA-Bench DeepSeek-R1 32B (Ollama build)6.45
7ISA-Bench Qwen3-Coder 30B (Ollama build)6.45
8ISA-Bench Phi-4-Reasoning (Ollama build)3.23
9ISA-Bench Granite-4.1 8B (Ollama build)3.23
10ISA-Bench Qwen2.5-Coder 14B (Ollama build)3.23

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