SCOPE Experimental Design - Datasets (CoT-only): leaderboard

SCOPE (2026) asks LLMs to design the experiments of recent ICML, NeurIPS and ICLR papers from their task description, related work and method, and a GPT-5.2 judge scores the plan against the real design with a redline rule that zeros fatal flaws. Sub-dimension score out of 5 for the choice of datasets, higher is better, with chain-of-thought prompting and no search.

Metric: Sub-dimension score (out of 5) for dataset selection: 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 September 2027. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.22.18#172
2Claude Sonnet 4.52.01#244
3Gemini 3 Pro1.85#135
4Grok 41.8#306
5DeepSeek V3.21.76#403
6Kimi K21.68#435
7Qwen 3 Max1.64#401

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=scope-experimental-design-datasets-cot-only · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.