NovBench (RAG) - Correctness: leaderboard

Metric: Correctness (DistAcc, 0-1): one minus half the L1 distance between the positive, neutral and negative proportions of the generated statements and of the human comments; retrieval-augmented prompt with the five most similar ACL, EMNLP and NAACL 2019-2022 titles and abstracts; 1,684 EMNLP 2023 papers: from the novelty-description sentences of the paper introduction (selected by GPT-5) the model writes a novelty evaluation as positive, neutral and negative statements, compared with the expert reviewers novelty comments (extracted by GPT-4o-mini, then deduplicated, consolidated and sorted by sentiment by GPT-4o); greedy decoding, at most 4,096 tokens; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 19 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Qwen 3 8B0.67
2Qwen 3 32B0.66
3GPT-50.65
4GPT-OSS-20B0.64
5DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B0.64
6DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B0.63
7Qwen 3 14B0.62
8GPT-OSS-120B0.6
9Gemini 2.5 Flash0.59

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