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StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents
Hugging Face · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- StateBench benchmark tests how language models track entity state changes across long documents with four difficulty levels.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building systems that must follow variable reassignments, code execution, or narrative state across extended contexts.
- Watch out
- Frontier models still fail on harder state tracking as inputs grow longer. Framework assumes fixed variables, not realistic scenarios where new entities appear.
- language model
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