QASPER
Scientific-paper QA over full NLP papers, with abstractive, extractive, yes/no, and unanswerable answers plus supporting evidence.
QASPER remains useful as a diagnostic component, but as a 2021 public static standalone benchmark it is mostly consumed through SCROLLS and LongBench rather than trusted as a current frontier long-context leaderboard.
Performance Timeline
Longitudinal progression of model scores against human baselines.Human Baseline & Difficulty Horizon
Calibrated human reference points, specialist benchmarks, and ceiling thresholds.Human question answering F1 score across full scientific research papers.
Metric & Scoring Methodology
Verification protocols, aggregation formulas, and specialized metric variants.answer F1 and evidence F1Dataset & Compute Cost
Evaluation volume, public availability, API pricing, and local hardware requirements.$5 – $20 USD for full benchmark evaluation run on frontier APIs.
1x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) or A100 (40GB/80GB) via vLLM / SGLang
How to Run & Reproduce
Standardized evaluation protocols, CLI commands, and reproducible runner templates.lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=<model_path> --tasks qasper --batch_size autoopencompass --datasets qasper --models <model_config># Standard API Evaluation Loop
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4o",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
temperature=0.0,
)When publishing results for QASPER, always report the exact prompt template, few-shot exemplar ordering, sampling temperature (temperature=0), maximum reasoning budget tokens, and the precise timestamped model snapshot ID.
Contamination & Memorization Analysis
Audit of pretraining exposure risks, memorization vectors, and refresh policies.Static fixed snapshot
Public on web / HuggingFace