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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents

11.03

StateBench tests how language models track changing information across long documents at four difficulty levels, revealing where models struggle and how targeted training helps recurrent and hybrid…

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