New Math Benchmark Caps Every Frontier Model Below 30%

Soohak, a 439-problem benchmark curated by working mathematicians, exposes stark limits in LLM reasoning — no model exceeds 50% even on its easiest subset, and top performers plateau around 26-30% on the hardest challenges.

A new benchmark called Soohak, designed by professional mathematicians to evaluate research-level mathematical capabilities, has produced some humbling results for frontier models. As @_akhaliq and @HuggingPapers reported, the benchmark contains 439 problems and includes a "refusal subset" where no model exceeds 50% accuracy.

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