Photonic PCFBench - Human Design Score: 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: Expert rubric mean. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 30 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o Mini0.59#598
2Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.59#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
3Gemini 3 Flash0.57#103
4O30.56#132
5Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.55#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
6GPT-50.53#105
7Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct0.53#650
8Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct0.51#383
9Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)0.5#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
10GPT-5 Mini0.46#193
11O4 Mini0.45#185
12Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.45#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
13Qwen 2 VL 72B Instruct0.43#551
14Qwen 3.5 122B A10B0.42#184
15Qwen 3.5 27B0.38#192

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-human-design-score · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.