Photonic PCFBench - Simulation Code Syntax: 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: Syntax correctness. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 31 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4.1 Mini1#363
2O31#132
3Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct1#463
4Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)1#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
5Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)1#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
6GPT-4o1#357
7GPT-4o Mini1#598
8GPT-51#105
9GPT-4.11#258
10Gemini 3 Flash1#103
11GPT-5 Mini1#193
12Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)1#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
13O4 Mini1#185
14Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.99#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
15Qwen-VL-Max0.99#475

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

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