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Main Authors: Peng, Jianxiang, Li, Junhao, Wang, Hongxiang, Lyu, Haocheng, Guo, Hui, Hao, Siyi, Wang, Zhen, Liu, Chuang, Zhang, Shaowei, Xiong, Bojian, Chen, Yue, Han, Zhuowen, Shi, Ling, Dong, Tianyu, Xiao, Juesi, Yang, Lei, Ren, Yuqi, Xiong, Deyi
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01167
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author Peng, Jianxiang
Li, Junhao
Wang, Hongxiang
Lyu, Haocheng
Guo, Hui
Hao, Siyi
Wang, Zhen
Liu, Chuang
Zhang, Shaowei
Xiong, Bojian
Chen, Yue
Han, Zhuowen
Shi, Ling
Dong, Tianyu
Xiao, Juesi
Yang, Lei
Ren, Yuqi
Xiong, Deyi
author_facet Peng, Jianxiang
Li, Junhao
Wang, Hongxiang
Lyu, Haocheng
Guo, Hui
Hao, Siyi
Wang, Zhen
Liu, Chuang
Zhang, Shaowei
Xiong, Bojian
Chen, Yue
Han, Zhuowen
Shi, Ling
Dong, Tianyu
Xiao, Juesi
Yang, Lei
Ren, Yuqi
Xiong, Deyi
contents With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), a large number of benchmarks have been proposed. However, most benchmarks lack unified evaluation standard and require the manual implementation of custom scripts, making results hard to ensure consistency and reproducibility. Furthermore, mainstream evaluation frameworks are centralized, with datasets and answers, which increases the risk of benchmark leakage. To address these issues, we propose a Decentralized Evaluation Protocol (DEP), a decentralized yet unified and standardized evaluation framework through a matching server without constraining benchmarks. The server can be mounted locally or deployed remotely, and once adapted, it can be reused over the long term. By decoupling users, LLMs, and benchmarks, DEP enables modular, plug-and-play evaluation: benchmark files and evaluation logic stay exclusively on the server side. In remote setting, users cannot access the ground truth, thereby achieving data isolation and leak-proof evaluation. To facilitate practical adoption, we develop DEP Toolkit, a protocol-compatible toolkit that supports features such as breakpoint resume, concurrent requests, and congestion control. We also provide detailed documentation for adapting new benchmarks to DEP. Using DEP toolkit, we evaluate multiple LLMs across benchmarks. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of DEP and show that it reduces the cost of deploying benchmark evaluations. As of February 2026, we have adapted over 60 benchmarks and continue to promote community co-construction to support unified evaluation across various tasks and domains.
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spellingShingle DEP: A Decentralized Large Language Model Evaluation Protocol
Peng, Jianxiang
Li, Junhao
Wang, Hongxiang
Lyu, Haocheng
Guo, Hui
Hao, Siyi
Wang, Zhen
Liu, Chuang
Zhang, Shaowei
Xiong, Bojian
Chen, Yue
Han, Zhuowen
Shi, Ling
Dong, Tianyu
Xiao, Juesi
Yang, Lei
Ren, Yuqi
Xiong, Deyi
Computation and Language
With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), a large number of benchmarks have been proposed. However, most benchmarks lack unified evaluation standard and require the manual implementation of custom scripts, making results hard to ensure consistency and reproducibility. Furthermore, mainstream evaluation frameworks are centralized, with datasets and answers, which increases the risk of benchmark leakage. To address these issues, we propose a Decentralized Evaluation Protocol (DEP), a decentralized yet unified and standardized evaluation framework through a matching server without constraining benchmarks. The server can be mounted locally or deployed remotely, and once adapted, it can be reused over the long term. By decoupling users, LLMs, and benchmarks, DEP enables modular, plug-and-play evaluation: benchmark files and evaluation logic stay exclusively on the server side. In remote setting, users cannot access the ground truth, thereby achieving data isolation and leak-proof evaluation. To facilitate practical adoption, we develop DEP Toolkit, a protocol-compatible toolkit that supports features such as breakpoint resume, concurrent requests, and congestion control. We also provide detailed documentation for adapting new benchmarks to DEP. Using DEP toolkit, we evaluate multiple LLMs across benchmarks. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of DEP and show that it reduces the cost of deploying benchmark evaluations. As of February 2026, we have adapted over 60 benchmarks and continue to promote community co-construction to support unified evaluation across various tasks and domains.
title DEP: A Decentralized Large Language Model Evaluation Protocol
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01167