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GPQA

Introduced by David Rein et al. in GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark20 Nov 2023 archive 2025-07-28

GPQA stands for Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark. It's a challenging dataset designed to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and scalable oversight mechanisms. Let me provide more details about it:

  • Description: GPQA consists of 448 multiple-choice questions meticulously crafted by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry. These questions are intentionally designed to be high-quality and extremely difficult.
  • Expert Accuracy: Even experts who hold or are pursuing PhDs in the corresponding domains achieve only 65% accuracy on these questions (or 74% when excluding clear mistakes identified in retrospect).
  • Google-Proof: The questions are "Google-proof," meaning that even with unrestricted access to the web, highly skilled non-expert validators only reach an accuracy of 34% despite spending over 30 minutes searching for answers.
  • AI Systems Difficulty: State-of-the-art AI systems, including our strongest GPT-4 based baseline, achieve only 39% accuracy on this challenging dataset.

The difficulty of GPQA for both skilled non-experts and cutting-edge AI systems makes it an excellent resource for conducting realistic scalable oversight experiments. These experiments aim to explore ways for human experts to reliably obtain truthful information from AI systems that surpass human capabilities¹³.

In summary, GPQA serves as a valuable benchmark for assessing the robustness and limitations of language models, especially when faced with complex and nuanced questions. Its difficulty level encourages research into effective oversight methods, bridging the gap between AI and human expertise.

(1) [2311.12022] GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark - arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022. (2) GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark — Klu. https://klu.ai/glossary/gpqa-eval. (3) GPA Dataset (Spring 2010 through Spring 2020) - Data Science Discovery. https://discovery.cs.illinois.edu/dataset/gpa/. (4) GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark - GitHub. https://github.com/idavidrein/gpqa. (5) Data Sets - OpenIntro. https://www.openintro.org/data/index.php?data=satgpa. (6) undefined. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.12022. (7) undefined. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022%29.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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GPQA NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Ultra v1 Accuracy 76.01 — — 7 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 270. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning Models 2 1 9 Jan 2025 not harvested
Qwen2.5 Technical Report 6 1 19 Dec 2024 ran 1 of 3 samples (2 unverified)
TextGrad: Automatic "Differentiation" via Text 2 2 11 Jun 2024 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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