MLS-Bench (Vanilla) - Structured and Causal Reasoning: leaderboard

Metric: Mean normalized task score (0-100): each metric is anchored so the worst reproduced human baseline scores 0 and the best 50 (a metric's theoretical optimum maps to 100), metrics are averaged with human weights within a setting and by geometric mean across at least three generalization settings, over the 10 MLS-Bench tasks of the Structured and Causal Reasoning area; Vanilla protocol: the score of the model's first tested proposal (tools: edit, test, submit, undo); high reasoning effort with a 10,000-token thinking budget, web search disabled, fixed seeds; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 5 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)26.6
2DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)21.6
3GPT-5.4 (High)15.8
4Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (High)12.4
5Qwen 3.6 Plus (Thinking)1.9

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