Photonic PCFBench - Topology Recognition: 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: Accuracy. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around April 2028. 33 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 122B A10B0.5#184
2Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct0.48#280
3O30.48#132
4Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.48#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
5GPT-50.47#105
6GPT-4o0.46#357
7Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning)0.46#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
8Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite0.43#432
9Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct0.43#383
10Gemini 3 Flash0.43#103
11GPT-5 Mini0.43#193
12GPT-4.10.42#258
13O4 Mini0.42#185
14Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)0.41#148 (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
15Grok 40.41#189

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-topology-recognition · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.