NUS launches SO-Arena: top System One model on accuracy ranks only 7th in reliability

NationalUniversityofSingapore · hf · 2026-11-13

NUS researchers released SO-Arena on Hugging Face, a benchmark covering 11 domains and 5 capability families to characterize System One models' capability spectrum and decision reliability. It features evidence-grounded evaluation with manually verified labels, fine-grained domain-specific difficulty criteria, realistic sandbox-based interactive evaluation, and reasoning-intensive tasks for System 1/2 comparison. Reliability is measured via decision stability under controlled option-set changes and missing-answer recognition. Evaluations across 21 models show scaling and reasoning gains vary substantially by domain, and strong overall accuracy does not ensure reliable decisions — the best-performing model ranks only 7th in reliability.

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