Hard2Verify: A Step-Level Verification Benchmark for Open-Ended Frontier Math research paper by Salesforce, 2025
Salesforce · Agents and evaluation · Oct 15, 2025 · 23 citations · 6 upvotes
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Hard2Verify, a human-annotated benchmark, evaluates step-level verifiers for LLM-based mathematical reasoning systems, highlighting the challenges and performance gaps between open-source and closed-source models.
By Shrey Pandit, Austin Xu, Xuan-Phi Nguyen and 3 more · arXiv 2510.13744 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
- Venue
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Citations
- 23, 3 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 6 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- Salesforce · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on Quarterly · on Paydays · on TechConf
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