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Datdanboi25 
posted an update 3 days ago
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100 likes on the Open SLM Leaderboard 🎉

176 models, 54 orgs, 5 benchmarks, and a whole community of support!

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed models, reported issues, suggested benchmark improvements, or used the leaderboard to compare and evaluate small language models.

It’s been awesome watching the leaderboard grow into a broader community resource for transparent and reproducible SLM evaluation.

Thank you all, and more to come 🚀

Congrats on the 100. Since you mentioned benchmark improvements, here is one from the board data itself.

ARC-Challenge is sitting below chance for most of the board, and it is doing real work in the ranking.

I pulled index.html and re-ran the numbers over all 176 models:

ARC-Challenge   mean 23.52   median 23.12   range 18.60 - 29.69
below chance (25):  139 of 176

A sign test on that split is z = 7.69 against a chance-level null. That one does not need any assumption about item count. Ability does not go systematically below chance, so a median 1.9 points under it usually means the option scoring is picking up a length or normalization bias rather than a skill.

The spread is the part that moves ranks. Between-model stdev on ARC-Challenge is 2.10. On the standard 1,172-item split a pure guesser already produces 1.27 of that from sampling alone, so the genuine between-model signal is about 1.7 points wide. ARC-Easy over the same 176 models is 7.33.

In getIntelligenceIndex the ARC term is (arc + arcChall) / 2, equal weight. So half of your widest-range benchmark is being averaged against a column with a quarter of the range that is centered below chance. At full coverage that is about 14% of the index.

What it costs: recomputing with ARC-Easy alone moves the average model 2.84 ranks, max 14 (Escarda-86M-Base 83 to 69), and reorders positions 3 through 5. Your top two hold either way.

I am not saying drop it. ARC-Challenge still has Spearman 0.555 with log params, so it is measuring something, and at 150M some models do clear chance (Zero-v0.1-150M at 28.84). It is the equal weighting I would question, not the benchmark.

Would you rather weight the composite by each column's usable range, or keep the weights readable and just show ARC-Easy and ARC-Challenge as separate columns?