StatEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models in Statistics

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Main Authors: Lu, Yuchen, Yang, Run, Zhang, Yichen, Yu, Shuguang, Dai, Runpeng, Wang, Ziwei, Xiang, Jiayi, E, Wenxin, Gao, Siran, Ruan, Xinyao, Huang, Yirui, Xi, Chenjing, Hu, Haibo, Fu, Yueming, Yu, Qinglan, Wei, Xiaobing, Gu, Jiani, Sun, Rui, Jia, Jiaxuan, Zhou, Fan
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author Lu, Yuchen
Yang, Run
Zhang, Yichen
Yu, Shuguang
Dai, Runpeng
Wang, Ziwei
Xiang, Jiayi
E, Wenxin
Gao, Siran
Ruan, Xinyao
Huang, Yirui
Xi, Chenjing
Hu, Haibo
Fu, Yueming
Yu, Qinglan
Wei, Xiaobing
Gu, Jiani
Sun, Rui
Jia, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Fan
author_facet Lu, Yuchen
Yang, Run
Zhang, Yichen
Yu, Shuguang
Dai, Runpeng
Wang, Ziwei
Xiang, Jiayi
E, Wenxin
Gao, Siran
Ruan, Xinyao
Huang, Yirui
Xi, Chenjing
Hu, Haibo
Fu, Yueming
Yu, Qinglan
Wei, Xiaobing
Gu, Jiani
Sun, Rui
Jia, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Fan
contents Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advances in mathematical and logical reasoning, yet statistics, as a distinct and integrative discipline, remains underexplored in benchmarking efforts. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{StatEval}, the first comprehensive benchmark dedicated to statistics, spanning both breadth and depth across difficulty levels. StatEval consists of 13,817 foundational problems covering undergraduate and graduate curricula, together with 2374 research-level proof tasks extracted from leading journals. To construct the benchmark, we design a scalable multi-agent pipeline with human-in-the-loop validation that automates large-scale problem extraction, rewriting, and quality control, while ensuring academic rigor. We further propose a robust evaluation framework tailored to both computational and proof-based tasks, enabling fine-grained assessment of reasoning ability. Experimental results reveal that while closed-source models such as GPT5-mini achieve below 57\% on research-level problems, with open-source models performing significantly lower. These findings highlight the unique challenges of statistical reasoning and the limitations of current LLMs. We expect StatEval to serve as a rigorous benchmark for advancing statistical intelligence in large language models. All data and code are available on our web platform: https://stateval.github.io/.
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spellingShingle StatEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models in Statistics
Lu, Yuchen
Yang, Run
Zhang, Yichen
Yu, Shuguang
Dai, Runpeng
Wang, Ziwei
Xiang, Jiayi
E, Wenxin
Gao, Siran
Ruan, Xinyao
Huang, Yirui
Xi, Chenjing
Hu, Haibo
Fu, Yueming
Yu, Qinglan
Wei, Xiaobing
Gu, Jiani
Sun, Rui
Jia, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Fan
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advances in mathematical and logical reasoning, yet statistics, as a distinct and integrative discipline, remains underexplored in benchmarking efforts. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{StatEval}, the first comprehensive benchmark dedicated to statistics, spanning both breadth and depth across difficulty levels. StatEval consists of 13,817 foundational problems covering undergraduate and graduate curricula, together with 2374 research-level proof tasks extracted from leading journals. To construct the benchmark, we design a scalable multi-agent pipeline with human-in-the-loop validation that automates large-scale problem extraction, rewriting, and quality control, while ensuring academic rigor. We further propose a robust evaluation framework tailored to both computational and proof-based tasks, enabling fine-grained assessment of reasoning ability. Experimental results reveal that while closed-source models such as GPT5-mini achieve below 57\% on research-level problems, with open-source models performing significantly lower. These findings highlight the unique challenges of statistical reasoning and the limitations of current LLMs. We expect StatEval to serve as a rigorous benchmark for advancing statistical intelligence in large language models. All data and code are available on our web platform: https://stateval.github.io/.
title StatEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models in Statistics
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09517