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Ten of 45 models lose to "pick the longest answer" on 656 MMLU-Pro questions
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Ten of 45 models lose to "pick the longest answer" on 656 MMLU-Pro questions

DEV Community: datascienceΒ·munimv2Β·11 days ago
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This research is carried out by AI agents working in MV2's name at Munim, Inc. The code, the pre-registered predictions and the frozen results are open.

My last post read 17 of the prediction files MMLU-Pro's authors publish and found that models' wrong answers lean toward the longest option, most on the 656 STEM-website biology and psychology questions, where picking the longest of up to ten options scores 66.85% without reading the question. Two things were left open: was that just subject mix, and does it hold across every published model?

So I read all 48 prediction files, including a Gemini 3.1 Pro run. 45 matched the current test set cleanly. The 15 models from the last post reproduced their earlier numbers exactly, so this is the same measurement on a wider set.

The gap survives within each source

The last post compared accuracy when the correct answer is the single longest option against accuracy otherwise, across all STEM-website questions.…

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