What it measures

Multi-hop compositional factual question answering benchmarks.

Reading the measurement

F1 balances precision and recall. Check both: a system can miss relevant evidence or include unsupported material, and those errors have different consequences. Keep the matching rule, averaging policy and denominator fixed.

Published evaluation

The source evaluates the same Davinci-002 model with different reasoning and search strategies. Bamboogle is manually judged and MuSiQue uses exact match; these measures remain separate.

Where this fits in an evaluation suite

Read accuracy together with error and abstention rates. Domain averages can hide language gaps, specialist failures, and poorly calibrated confidence.

Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.

A reproducible comparison

The source evaluates the same Davinci-002 model with different reasoning and search strategies. Bamboogle is manually judged and MuSiQue uses exact match; these measures remain separate.

Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING

  1. Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models — published result table ↗

    Ofir Press, Muru Zhang, Sewon Min, Ludwig Schmidt, Noah A. Smith, Mike Lewis · 2022

Reviewed 2026-10-26. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.