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Kaggle and IBM Research launch the ScarfBench Java migration leaderboard: Gemini 4 Argon with Antigravity leads at 75.2%, and about 72% of failures happen at runtime

Kaggle announced ScarfBench with IBM Research, a 204-task benchmark that tests whether coding agents can migrate enterprise Java apps between Jakarta EE, Quarkus and Spring without changing behavior. IBM's October 27 technical note shows Gemini 4 Argon with Antigravity first on the smoke score at 75.2%, Claude Opus 5.5 with Claude Code highest on all-tests-pass at 72.1%, and GPT-6.1 Sol with Codex cheapest at $1.25 per solved task.

Kaggle and IBM Research launch the ScarfBench Java migration leaderboard: Gemini 4 Argon with Antigravity leads at 75.2%, and about 72% of failures happen at runtime

Key Takeaways

  • 204 migration tasks and 10 model-plus-harness configurations; top smoke scores are Gemini 4 Argon + Antigravity 75.2%, Claude Opus 5.5 + Claude Code 70.5% and Claude Opus 5 + Claude Code 69.8% (IBM figures)
  • Claude Opus 5.5 + Claude Code has the highest all-tests-pass rate at 72.1%, just ahead of Gemini 4 Argon at 71.1%
  • Compiling is mostly solved: 8 of 10 configurations compiled at least 97% of solvable tasks, yet smoke scores spanned more than 50 points
  • 535 of 745 classified failing runs (about 72%) were runtime behavioral failures, including 210 lost-route/404 failures
  • Cost per solved task: $1.25 for GPT-6.1 Sol + Codex, $1.59 for Gemini 3.8 Flash + mini-swe and $10.10 for Claude Opus 5.5 + Claude Code; public submissions are not open yet
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MLExpert: Open 35B MoE Agentic Model Lifts MLE-Bench Lite Medal Rate from 37.9% to 72.7%, Matching Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3

Advancing autonomous AI-for-AI (AI4AI) engineering, researchers from Shanghai AI Lab (InternScience) release MLExpert (arXiv:2610.22344), a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model for autonomous machine learning engineering. Powered by the Kaggle-MLE Factory, hierarchical agentic SFT, and Windowed Interaction RL (WIRL), MLExpert boosts average medal rates on MLE-Bench Lite from 37.9% to 72.7%—matching frontier giants like Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3 while generalizing to agent scaffold optimization.

MLExpert: Open 35B MoE Agentic Model Lifts MLE-Bench Lite Medal Rate from 37.9% to 72.7%, Matching Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3

Key Takeaways

  • 72.7% medal rate on MLE-Bench Lite: boosts base model performance from 37.9% to 72.7%, matching frontier models Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3 with a 35B MoE backbone
  • Windowed Interaction RL (WIRL): assigns shared outcome rewards to multi-turn windows between successive experiment results with asynchronous policy updates
  • Cross-domain AI4AI generalization: transfers optimization skills directly to NatureBench Lite, agent scaffold optimization, and algorithm engineering
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Google DeepMind & Kaggle Launch Game Arena: Dynamic Competitive Benchmarks for LLM Strategic Evaluation

Addressing the rapid saturation and benchmark overfitting of static LLM evaluations, Google DeepMind and Kaggle unveiled Game Arena. By orchestrating head-to-head live agent matchups with dynamic Elo rating evolution, Game Arena prevents performance saturation across three pilot environments: Chess (perfect information), Texas Hold'em Poker (imperfect information), and Werewolf (multiplayer social deduction and deception), systematically benchmarking long-horizon strategic reasoning.

Google DeepMind & Kaggle Launch Game Arena: Dynamic Competitive Benchmarks for LLM Strategic Evaluation

Key Takeaways

  • Dynamic Head-to-Head Evaluation: Replaces static, easily saturated benchmarks with real-time model-versus-model matchups and dynamic Elo tracking that scales naturally as LLM reasoning capabilities evolve.
  • Comprehensive Game Theory Spectrum: Spans perfect information (Chess), imperfect information with strategic betting (Poker), and multi-turn multi-agent social deduction and deception (Werewolf).
  • Reproducible Sandboxed Infrastructure: Jointly open-sourced by DeepMind and Kaggle, providing standardized Python tournament APIs, replay verification pipelines, and sandboxed anti-cheat guardrails.
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LlamaIndex and Kaggle launch ExtractBench: 370-doc extraction leaderboard for agents

LlamaIndex (@llama_index) and Kaggle launched ExtractBench, a schema-guided document-extraction leaderboard for downstream agents. It covers the documents most likely to break workflows—long record lists, noisy scans, handwriting, and complex tables—across 370 enterprise documents, 8 business domains, and 67 document types, comparing LlamaParse, Codex, Claude Code, and more. The leaderboard is live on Kaggle.

Key Takeaways

  • ExtractBench is live on Kaggle for schema-guided enterprise document extraction.
  • 370 documents across 8 domains and 67 types, including scans, handwriting, long lists, and complex tables.
  • Compares LlamaParse, Codex, Claude Code, and more for downstream agent workflows.
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