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SummScreen Benchmark (Long-Form Narrative Summarization)
Summarizing long-form narratives, such as books, movies, and TV scripts, remains an open challenge in NLP. Unlike news or document summarization, narratives require capturing intricate plotlines, evolving character relationships, and thematic coherence over tens of thousands of tokens. The hybrid structure of narratives, which combines descriptive prose with multi-speaker dialogues, implicit inference, and dynamic topic shifts, adds further complexity, demanding an approach that preserves contextual integrity while condensing information effectively. Furthermore, the sheer length of narrative texts, typically ranging from 40K to 160K tokens, poses significant challenges for standard summarization models.
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Results archive 2025-07-28
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| 1 | NexusSum (Mistral Large) | 61.59 | 30.44 | 6.40 | 17.95 | – | Paper | – | 2025 | no code linked | report |
| 2 | CachED (BART Large) | 61.59 | – | Paper | – | 2025 | no code linked | report | |||
| 3 | SLED (BART Large) | 59.9 | – | Paper | – | 2025 | no code linked | report | |||
| 4 | Unlimiformer (BART Base) | 58.5 | – | Paper | – | 2025 | no code linked | report | |||
| 5 | Zero-Shot (Mistral Large) | 57.23 | 29.18 | 7.43 | 19.06 | – | Paper | – | 2025 | no code linked | report |
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Syntology Ran reads "N of M ran · U unverified": of the M code samples Syntology harvested from repositories linked to that row's paper (joined by arXiv id), N executed on a synthesized input and the other U = M−N are unverified (harvested, no recorded run). It counts code from repositories linked to that row's paper, not this result: the row's number was not reproduced and nothing here is a correctness claim. The other cell texts mean no graph line for the row: "linked, not harvested" (the archive links code, Syntology has not harvested it), "no code linked" (no code link in the archive), "not matched" (the row's paper URL matched no paper on this site). 0 rows have a graph line, from 0 distinct papers; 0 rows (0 papers) have at least one sample that ran. Counting each paper once: Syntology ran 0 of 0 samples; 0 unverified. Separately, 0 of those 0 are pointer-only (licence): the site points at that code rather than redistributing it, a licence property recorded for ran and unverified samples alike; each cell's tooltip carries the row's own pointer-only count. Read from the graph 2026-09-24. Per-sample status is on the paper page.
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