Photonic PCFBench - Application Classification: leaderboard

PCFBench v1 Appendix full results; 26 isolated tasks across six categories; temperature0.1, task-specific64–2048token budgets; native fractions/errors. Paired structure+field and Field-only contexts separate. Closed-loop success uses expert sign/magnitude constraints, not physical resimulation; Human Score mean of six dimensions/two experts on120samples. Source-disputed summary/appendix cells and unbound checkpoint variants withheld.

Metric: Accuracy. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2032. 33 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 122B A10B0.14#184
2Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct0.14#383
3Qwen 3.5 27B0.12#192
4O30.12#132
5GPT-50.11#105
6Gemini 3 Flash0.11#103
7Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.11#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
8Qwen 2 VL 72B Instruct0.11#551
9Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.1#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
10GPT-5 Mini0.09#193
11Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct0.09#280
12O4 Mini0.09#185
13GLM-4.6V0.09#330
14Qwen-VL-Max0.09#475
15GPT-4o0.08#357

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=photonic-pcfbench-application-classification · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.