ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoning
Shulin Huang, Linyi Yang, Yan Song, Shuang Chen, Leyang Cui, Ziyu Wan, Qingcheng Zeng, Ying Wen
Abstract
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) poses significant challenges, particularly due to issues of data contamination and the leakage of correct answers. To address these challenges, we introduce ThinkBench, a novel evaluation framework designed to robustly evaluate the reasoning capability of LLMs. ThinkBench proposes a dynamic data generation method for constructing out-of-distribution (OOD) datasets and offers an OOD dataset that contains 2,912 samples drawn from reasoning tasks. ThinkBench unifies the evaluation of reasoning models and non-reasoning models. We evaluate 16 LLMs and 4 PRMs under identical experimental conditions and show that most of the LLMs' performance are far from robust and they face a certain level of data leakage. By dynamically generating OOD datasets, ThinkBench effectively provides a reliable evaluation of LLMs and reduces data contamination impact. Our data and codes are available at https://github.com/huangshulin123/ThinkBench.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
huang2025thinkbench,
title={ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust {LLM} Reasoning},
author={Shulin Huang and Linyi Yang and Yan Song and Shuang Chen and Leyang Cui and Ziyu Wan and Qingcheng Zeng and Ying Wen and Kun Shao and Weinan Zhang and Jun Wang and Yue Zhang},
booktitle={The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
year={2025},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZKwlz9ZQxS}
}