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What is MMLU (CoT)?

Chain-of-Thought variant of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark, evaluating language models across 57 tasks including elementary mathematics, US history, computer science, law, and other professional and academic subjects. This version uses chain-of-thought prompting to elicit step-by-step reasoning.

MMLU (CoT) is a text benchmark evaluating models on language, legal, math, reasoning, finance, general, and healthcare tasks. LLM Stats tracks 3 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.8, with the leader at 0.9.

Compare leaders on the best AI for language, best AI for legal, best AI for math, best AI for reasoning, best AI for finance, best AI for general and best AI for healthcare leaderboards.

Current leaders

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct from Meta currently leads the MMLU (CoT) leaderboard with a score of 0.886 across 3 evaluated AI models.

Source paper

Title
Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding
Authors
Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andy Zou, and 3 others
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Abstract

We propose a new test to measure a text model's multitask accuracy. The test covers 57 tasks including elementary mathematics, US history, computer science, law, and more. To attain high accuracy on this test, models must possess extensive world knowledge and problem solving ability. We find that while most recent models have near random-chance accuracy, the very largest GPT-3 model improves over random chance by almost 20 percentage points on average. However, on every one of the 57 tasks, the best models still need substantial improvements before they can reach expert-level accuracy. Models also have lopsided performance and frequently do not know when they are wrong. Worse, they still have near-random accuracy on some socially important subjects such as morality and law. By comprehensively evaluating the breadth and depth of a model's academic and professional understanding, our test can be used to analyze models across many tasks and to identify important shortcomings.

FAQ

Common questions about the MMLU (CoT) benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the MMLU (CoT) benchmark?

Chain-of-Thought variant of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark, evaluating language models across 57 tasks including elementary mathematics, US history, computer science, law, and other professional and academic subjects. This version uses chain-of-thought prompting to elicit step-by-step reasoning.

What is the MMLU (CoT) leaderboard?

The MMLU (CoT) leaderboard ranks 3 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Llama 3.1 405B Instruct by Meta leads with a score of 0.886. The average score across all models is 0.825.

What is the highest MMLU (CoT) score?

The highest MMLU (CoT) score is 0.886, achieved by Llama 3.1 405B Instruct from Meta.

How many models are evaluated on MMLU (CoT)?

3 models have been evaluated on the MMLU (CoT) benchmark, with 0 verified results and 3 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MMLU (CoT) paper?

The MMLU (CoT) paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03300. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MMLU (CoT) cover?

MMLU (CoT) is categorized under language, legal, math, reasoning, finance, general, and healthcare. The benchmark evaluates text models.

What is the best open-source model on MMLU (CoT)?

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct by Meta is the top-ranked open-source model on MMLU (CoT), with a score of 0.886 (rank #1).

How recent are the MMLU (CoT) leaderboard results?

The MMLU (CoT) leaderboard was last updated in August 2026 and currently includes 3 evaluated models.