Photonic PCFBench - Closed Loop Success: 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: Success rate. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 31 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o Mini0.8#598
2O30.7#132
3Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.69#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
4Gemini 3 Flash0.68#103
5Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct0.64#650
6Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.63#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
7GPT-50.62#105
8Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct0.62#390
9Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite0.61#432
10Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct0.59#383
11O4 Mini0.56#185
12Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)0.55#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
13GPT-5 Mini0.54#193
14GPT-4.10.5#258
15Qwen 2 VL 72B Instruct0.48#551

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-closed-loop-success · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.