Photonic PCFBench - Hole Diameter Prediction: 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: NRMSE. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 33 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Flash0.17#103
2O30.17#132
3Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.18#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
4Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct0.19#383
5GPT-50.2#105
6Grok 40.2#189
7Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-25120.21#663
8Grok 4.10.21#239
9GPT-5 Mini0.22#193
10Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.22#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
11GPT-4.1 Mini0.22#363
12Qwen 3.5 122B A10B0.23#184
13GPT-4o Mini0.23#598
14GPT-4.10.24#258
15O4 Mini0.24#185

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-hole-diameter-prediction · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.