New Benchmark Uses Esoteric Programming Languages to Evaluate LLM Reasoning Abilities
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Summary
Researchers introduce EsoLang-Bench, a new benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) using esoteric programming languages like Brainfuck, Befunge-98, Whitespace, Unlambda, and Shakespeare. The benchmark addresses limitations of current evaluations that primarily use mainstream languages like Python, where models may benefit from massive pretraining data and memorization rather than genuine reasoning ability. By testing on 80 programming problems across five esoteric languages with limited training data, the benchmark aims to better assess LLMs' true reasoning capabilities in code generation tasks.
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This leads to inflated accuracy scores that may reflect data memorization rather than genuine reasoning ability.
We introduce EsoLang-Bench, a benchmark of 80 programming problems across five esoteric languages (Brainfuck, Befunge-98, Whitespace, Unlambda, and Shakespeare) where training data is 5,000 t
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