Diks et al. (SpatialBench team)

SpatialBench-Long: Verifiable Long-Horizon Spatial Biology

24 evaluations spanning CosMx / Visium / Xenium / MERFISH / Slide-seq / histology / lineage data, graded deterministically over controlled vocabularies with chokepoint rubrics. Extremely hard: three model–harness pairs tie for best at just 11.1% (8/72). Directly dbverse-adjacent. Scores are per model–harness pair (harness in the variant).

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Editor's note

24 evaluations spanning CosMx / Visium / Xenium / MERFISH / Slide-seq / histology / lineage data, graded deterministically over controlled vocabularies with chokepoint rubrics. Extremely hard: three model–harness pairs tie for best at just 11.1% (8/72). Directly dbverse-adjacent. Scores are per model–harness pair (harness in the variant).

Results

ModelScoreVariantProvenance
Gemini 3.5 Flash11.1% pass ratePi harnesspaper
GPT-5.511.1% pass ratePi harnesspaper
GPT-5.511.1% pass rateOpenAI Codex harnesspaper

Sources

  • paper SpatialBench-Long (arXiv:2605.28065)