Scaling test-time compute on contest mathematics
Search guided by a verifier at test time raises contest-math accuracy beyond what parameter count alone delivered on the same items.
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Search guided by a verifier at test time raises contest-math accuracy beyond what parameter count alone delivered on the same items.
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These scores do not rank models. Different benchmarks, splits, and decoding regimes stay in their own rows.
| Model | Benchmark | Score | Who ran it | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic · 20241022 | SWE-bench Verified | 49.0% Resolve rate | Independent Academic No leakage flagged | Verified split, isolated container, pass@1 |
OpenAI o1 OpenAI · 2024-12-17 | AIME 2024 | 83.3% Accuracy | Vendor Self-Report No leakage flagged | Consensus@64 test-time search, private holdout |
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek · 2025 release | MATH-500 | 97.3% Pass@1 | Reproducibility Collective No leakage flagged | Open weights, greedy decoding as reported by the collective |
Gemini 1.5 Pro Google DeepMind · 002 | Video-MME | 81.3% Total score | Vendor Self-Report No leakage flagged | Subtitles included, native multimodal input |
GPT-4 OpenAI · 0314 | MMLU | 86.4% Accuracy | Vendor Self-Report Leakage not ruled out | 5-shot, original static split |