MRCR 128K (8-needle)
MRCR (Multi-Round Coreference Resolution) at 128K context length with 8 needles. Models must navigate long conversations to reproduce specific model outputs, testing attention and reasoning across 128K-token contexts with 8 items to retrieve.
Qwen3.7 Max from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the MRCR 128K (8-needle) leaderboard with a score of 0.904 across 2 evaluated AI models.
What MRCR 128K (8-needle) measures
MRCR 128K (8-needle) is a text benchmark that evaluates large language models on general, long context, and reasoning tasks. LLM Stats tracks 2 models on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.5, with the leader reaching 0.9.
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Publication
- Paper
- Michelangelo: Long Context Evaluations Beyond Haystacks via Latent Structure Queries
- Authors
- Kiran Vodrahalli, Santiago Ontanon, Nilesh Tripuraneni, Kelvin Xu, and 20 others
- Published
- arXiv
- 2409.12640
Abstract
We introduce Michelangelo: a minimal, synthetic, and unleaked long-context reasoning evaluation for large language models which is also easy to automatically score. This evaluation is derived via a novel, unifying framework for evaluations over arbitrarily long contexts which measure the model's ability to do more than retrieve a single piece of information from its context. The central idea of the Latent Structure Queries framework (LSQ) is to construct tasks which require a model to ``chisel away'' the irrelevant information in the context, revealing a latent structure in the context. To verify a model's understanding of this latent structure, we query the model for details of the structure. Using LSQ, we produce three diagnostic long-context evaluations across code and natural-language domains intended to provide a stronger signal of long-context language model capabilities. We perform evaluations on several state-of-the-art models and demonstrate both that a) the proposed evaluations are high-signal and b) that there is significant room for improvement in synthesizing long-context information.
Qwen3.7 Max leads with 90.4%, followed by 
MiniCPM-SALA at 10.1%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on MRCR 128K (8-needle)
MRCR 128K (8-needle) Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | — | 1.0M | $1.25 / $3.75 | ||
| 2 |  OpenBMB | 9B | — | — |
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