NLCO - Set-S - Accuracy: leaderboard

Share of small (Set-S) NLCO instances, 50 per task, where the model's own discrete answer is feasible and reaches the solver's optimal objective within tolerance; no code or external solver is allowed. Percent, higher is better. NLCO (Jiang et al., Eindhoven University of Technology and others, 2026) renders 43 combinatorial optimization problem types (routing, packing, scheduling, covering, assignment) as natural-language scenarios with solver-annotated reference solutions.

Metric: Accuracy: feasible and matching the solver-optimal objective (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Flash (High)91.6#159 (Gemini 3 Flash)
2GPT-5.1 (Medium)90.9#225 (GPT-5.1)
3O4 Mini (High)89.3#354 (O4 Mini)
4Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)89#244 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
5Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)88.7#426 (Grok 4.1 Fast)
6DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)88.2#403 (DeepSeek V3.2)
7Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct80.1#619
8nemotron-3-nano-30B-a3B (Reasoning)80.1#1891 (nemotron-3-nano-30B-a3B)
9DeepSeek V3.2 (Non-reasoning)72.1#403 (DeepSeek V3.2)
10Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning)69.9#1235 (Qwen 3 14B)
11QwQ-32B68.5#909
12MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-reasoning)58.4#674 (MiMo-V2-Flash)
13Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-251247.7#1595
14Llama 4 Maverick Instruct42.8#1125
15Qwen 3 14B (Non-reasoning)38.7#1235 (Qwen 3 14B)

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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