Benchmark Almanac

MR-NIAH (Multi-Round Needles-In-A-Haystack)

Only in system cards

Models must repeat one earlier answer from a long multi-turn dialogue history of 2K to 1M tokens. Scored by adjusted recall of key parts.

MiniMax built it as an open alternative to MRCR, in English and Chinese.

Made by
MiniMax
Released
January 2025
Kind
Finding facts in long inputs
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Last in a system card
January 2025
Last model added
January 2025
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

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No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for MR-NIAH (Multi-Round Needles-In-A-Haystack) yet.

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We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

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DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Jan 14, 2025 MiniMax-Text-01 technical report MR-NIAH English and Chinese, adjusted recall curves without printed values (Figure 15) Capabilities

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