SCOPE Experimental Design - Ablation Studies (CoT-only): leaderboard
Metric: Sub-dimension score (out of 5) for ablation study design: rubric scores from a GPT-5.2 judge against the ground-truth experimental design of 300 recent ICML, NeurIPS and ICLR papers in 19 research domains; a redline rule zeros a sub-dimension with a fatal flaw such as a hallucinated dataset or baseline, an incompatible metric or a violated constraint; chain-of-thought prompting without search. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 7 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 3.99 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 | 3.6 |
| 3 | Kimi K2 | 3.32 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V3.2 | 2.75 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 Max | 2.61 |
| 6 | Gemini 3 Pro | 2.47 |
| 7 | Grok 4 | 2.44 |
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