Benchmark Almanac

WSC

PaLM (540B) 95.9% leads since April 2022
PaLM (540B) 95.9% leads since April 2022
Dropped

Models decide whether a pronoun refers to a given noun phrase in sentences that need commonsense to resolve. Scored by accuracy.

This is the SuperGLUE recasting of the Winograd Schema Challenge.

Released
May 2019
Kind
Commonsense
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
PaLM 2-L #195 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
May 2023, dropped after it saturated
Last model added
May 2023
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

PaLM 2-L leads with 86.9%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

PaLM (540B) leads with 95.9% across all independent runs

Best score per model across the official leaderboard, Epoch AI’s own runs and any board Epoch AI copied. Each bar and row names its source.

PaLM (540B) leads with 95.9%, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

  1. 1 PaLM 2-L 86.9%

Source: Labs’ model cards

Source: Official WSC leaderboard

Sources: Official WSC leaderboard and labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 PaLM 2-L 86.9% May 2023 Lab model card
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 PaLM (540B) 95.9% Apr 2022 Official leaderboard
2 T5-11B 93.8% Oct 2019 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-3 175B (davinci) 80.1% May 2020 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 PaLM (540B) 95.9% Apr 2022 Official leaderboard
2 T5-11B 93.8% Oct 2019 Official leaderboard
3 PaLM 2-L 86.9% May 2023 Lab model card
4 GPT-3 175B (davinci) 80.1% May 2020 Official leaderboard

The benchmark's own leaderboard has 26 entries, 3 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

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Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Google DeepMind
Own leaderboard Passed 85% in Oct 2019, by T5-11B
PaLM (540B) 95.9%

Source: Official WSC leaderboard

T5-11B on the official leaderboard passed 85% in October 2019

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2020 2021 2022 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) PaLM (540B) T5-11B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2020 2021 2022 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) PaLM (540B) T5-11B

Sources: Official WSC leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Labs dropped it from launch posts once the best score passed 85%

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Google DeepMind
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
May 10, 2023 PaLM 2-L 86.9 WSC, 1-shot

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