Photonic PCFBench - Evidence Explanation Paired: 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: BERTScore F1. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 31 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct0.44#463
2Qwen 3.5 122B A10B0.44#184
3Qwen 3.5 27B0.42#192
4Grok 40.41#189
5Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-25120.41#663
6Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct0.4#280
7GPT-50.4#105
8Qwen 3.5 9B0.4#391
9Gemini 3 Flash0.4#103
10O30.4#132
11Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.4#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
12Grok 4.10.39#239
13Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.39#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
14Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct0.39#419
15Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct0.39#390

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

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