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AI Scientist Arena

Frontier Question Bank

Questions from working scientists that no contender could answer, each with criteria a third party can grade against.

Why this exists

A benchmark made of questions somebody already knew the answer to measures recall. This one is made of questions a scientist needed answered and could not get answered, which is the thing everyone actually wants to measure. Half the bank is held back: the private split never leaves our infrastructure, so a contender cannot be trained on it and then tested against it.

Admission

  • Nominated by the scientist at resolution.
  • Both contenders lost to the reference answer.
  • Publication-matched nominator, or a panel endorsement.
  • Verification criteria a third party can apply.

The bank is empty

Nothing has been admitted yet. A question gets here by being asked in earnest, beating both contenders, and coming with a way to check the answer.

Prompt hashes are published for a reason

Every admitted question's exact prompt text is hashed here. A lab that wants to prove it excluded the bank from training can check its corpus against these hashes without ever seeing the questions. Download every hash, both splits, as a text file a build script can diff.