SCOPE Experimental Design - Metrics (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 evaluation metrics, higher is better, with chain-of-thought prompting and no search.

Metric: Sub-dimension score (out of 5) for metric 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
1Claude Sonnet 4.52.54#244
2GPT-5.22.45#172
3Kimi K22.12#435
4DeepSeek V3.22.01#403
5Gemini 3 Pro1.91#135
6Grok 41.86#306
7Qwen 3 Max1.86#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-metrics-cot-only · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.