StateBench's four difficulty levels, from remembering a birthday to tracking swapped cups

allen_ai · x · 2026-11-04

StateBench splits state tracking into 4 levels—r-trivial, aperiodic, soluble, and general finite—ranging from remembering fixed facts like a birth date to tracking a ball as cups are repeatedly swapped, giving a graded view of where models fail.

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