MATRIX (Materials Science) - Hypothesis Generation: leaderboard

Metric: Judge score (% of the maximum) on MATRIX hypothesis generation: text-only hypothesis generation from the early sections of research papers; text only, no image; GPT-5.1 rubric judge scoring each long-form answer 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 or 1 (scientific correctness, reasoning quality, consistency with the context), mean shown times 100; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct76.5#401
2Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-251268.5#644
3InternVL2-8B51#826
4Qwen 2 VL 7B Instruct49.5#816

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=matrix-materials-science-hypothesis-generation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-11.