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author Liu, Xue
Ma, Xin
Ma, Yuxin
Peng, Yongchang
Wang, Duo
Wen, Zhoufutu
Zhang, Ge
Zhang, Kaiyuan
Chen, Xinyu
Ding, Yida
He, Tianci
Hou, Jiani
Hu, Liang
Huang, Ziyun
Hui, Yongzhe
Jiao, Jianpeng
Ju, Chennan
Kong, Yingru
Li, Yiran
Liu, Jiashuo
Liu, Mengyun
Ma, Luyao
Ni, Fei
Ni, Yiqing
Niu, Pengbo
Qiu, Yueyan
Ren, Yanle
Shen, Xinyu
Shi, Zilin
Wang, Zaiyuan
Yue, Wenjie
Zhang, Chun
Zhang, Shiyu
Zhang, Xinyi
Zhao, Kaiwen
Zhu, Zhenwei
Wu, Shanshan
Zhao, Qi
Huang, Wenhao
author_facet Liu, Xue
Ma, Xin
Ma, Yuxin
Peng, Yongchang
Wang, Duo
Wen, Zhoufutu
Zhang, Ge
Zhang, Kaiyuan
Chen, Xinyu
Ding, Yida
He, Tianci
Hou, Jiani
Hu, Liang
Huang, Ziyun
Hui, Yongzhe
Jiao, Jianpeng
Ju, Chennan
Kong, Yingru
Li, Yiran
Liu, Jiashuo
Liu, Mengyun
Ma, Luyao
Ni, Fei
Ni, Yiqing
Niu, Pengbo
Qiu, Yueyan
Ren, Yanle
Shen, Xinyu
Shi, Zilin
Wang, Zaiyuan
Yue, Wenjie
Zhang, Chun
Zhang, Shiyu
Zhang, Xinyi
Zhao, Kaiwen
Zhu, Zhenwei
Wu, Shanshan
Zhao, Qi
Huang, Wenhao
contents As Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit plateauing performance on conventional benchmarks, a pivotal challenge persists: evaluating their proficiency in complex, open-ended tasks characterizing genuine expert-level cognition. Existing frameworks suffer from narrow domain coverage, reliance on generalist tasks, or self-evaluation biases. To bridge this gap, we present XpertBench, a high-fidelity benchmark engineered to assess LLMs across authentic professional domains. XpertBench consists of 1,346 meticulously curated tasks across 80 categories, spanning finance, healthcare, legal services, education, and dual-track research (STEM and Humanities). These tasks are derived from over 1,000 submissions by domain experts--including researchers from elite institutions and practitioners with extensive clinical or industrial experience--ensuring superior ecological validity. Each task uses detailed rubrics with mostly 15-40 weighted checkpoints to assess professional rigor. To facilitate scalable yet human-aligned assessment, we introduce ShotJudge, a novel evaluation paradigm that employs LLM judges calibrated with expert few-shot exemplars to mitigate self-rewarding biases. Our empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs reveals a pronounced performance ceiling: even leading models achieve a peak success rate of only ~66%, with a mean score around 55%. Models also exhibit domain-specific divergence, showing non-overlapping strengths in quantitative reasoning versus linguistic synthesis.. These findings underscore a significant "expert-gap" in current AI systems and establish XpertBench as a critical instrument for navigating the transition from general-purpose assistants to specialized professional collaborators.
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spellingShingle Xpertbench: Expert Level Tasks with Rubrics-Based Evaluation
Liu, Xue
Ma, Xin
Ma, Yuxin
Peng, Yongchang
Wang, Duo
Wen, Zhoufutu
Zhang, Ge
Zhang, Kaiyuan
Chen, Xinyu
Ding, Yida
He, Tianci
Hou, Jiani
Hu, Liang
Huang, Ziyun
Hui, Yongzhe
Jiao, Jianpeng
Ju, Chennan
Kong, Yingru
Li, Yiran
Liu, Jiashuo
Liu, Mengyun
Ma, Luyao
Ni, Fei
Ni, Yiqing
Niu, Pengbo
Qiu, Yueyan
Ren, Yanle
Shen, Xinyu
Shi, Zilin
Wang, Zaiyuan
Yue, Wenjie
Zhang, Chun
Zhang, Shiyu
Zhang, Xinyi
Zhao, Kaiwen
Zhu, Zhenwei
Wu, Shanshan
Zhao, Qi
Huang, Wenhao
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
As Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit plateauing performance on conventional benchmarks, a pivotal challenge persists: evaluating their proficiency in complex, open-ended tasks characterizing genuine expert-level cognition. Existing frameworks suffer from narrow domain coverage, reliance on generalist tasks, or self-evaluation biases. To bridge this gap, we present XpertBench, a high-fidelity benchmark engineered to assess LLMs across authentic professional domains. XpertBench consists of 1,346 meticulously curated tasks across 80 categories, spanning finance, healthcare, legal services, education, and dual-track research (STEM and Humanities). These tasks are derived from over 1,000 submissions by domain experts--including researchers from elite institutions and practitioners with extensive clinical or industrial experience--ensuring superior ecological validity. Each task uses detailed rubrics with mostly 15-40 weighted checkpoints to assess professional rigor. To facilitate scalable yet human-aligned assessment, we introduce ShotJudge, a novel evaluation paradigm that employs LLM judges calibrated with expert few-shot exemplars to mitigate self-rewarding biases. Our empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs reveals a pronounced performance ceiling: even leading models achieve a peak success rate of only ~66%, with a mean score around 55%. Models also exhibit domain-specific divergence, showing non-overlapping strengths in quantitative reasoning versus linguistic synthesis.. These findings underscore a significant "expert-gap" in current AI systems and establish XpertBench as a critical instrument for navigating the transition from general-purpose assistants to specialized professional collaborators.
title Xpertbench: Expert Level Tasks with Rubrics-Based Evaluation
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02368