MMLU subject subset: Undergraduate mechanics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics, typically calculation-heavy.
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| Category | knowledge |
|---|---|
| Subcategory | physics |
| Page status | active |
| Metric | accuracy |
| Direction | higher_is_better |
| Unit | % |
| Dataset size | 102 |
| Dataset licence | MIT |
| Publisher | UC Berkeley (original); Center for AI Safety (current host) |
Undergraduate mechanics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics, typically calculation-heavy. Questions are four-option multiple-choice, drawn from the MMLU test set's "physics" subcategory within the benchmark's "STEM" top-level group, and are graded on the single correct labelled option.
Four-option multiple-choice questions, graded on the single correct labelled option; commonly evaluated 5-shot, consistent with the rest of MMLU.
| Model | Provider | Score | Card as of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Llama 3 70B | Meta | 59.8 | 2024-07 |
| Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct | Meta | 59.8 | 2026-04 |
| Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct | Nous Research | 59.8 | 2026-04 |
| Yi 1.5 34B 32K | 01.AI | 59.8 | 2024-07 |
| Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 | Mistral AI | 57.8 | 2026-04 |
| Yi 1.5 34B | 01.AI | 56.9 | 2026-04 |
| Yi 34B 200K | 01.AI | 54.9 | 2024-07 |
| Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B | Nous Research | 52.9 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 34B Chat | 01.AI | 52.0 | 2026-04 |
| Yi 1.5 34B Chat 16K | 01.AI | 52.0 | 2024-07 |
| Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct | Meta | 50.0 | 2024-07 |
| Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct | Nous Research | 50.0 | 2024-07 |
| Meta Llama 3 8B | Meta | 49.0 | 2024-07 |
| Meta Llama 3 8B | Nous Research | 49.0 | 2024-07 |
| Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO | Nous Research | 49.0 | 2024-07 |
| Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B | Nous Research | 48.0 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 9B | 01.AI | 47.1 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 9B 32K | 01.AI | 47.1 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 9B Chat 16K | 01.AI | 47.1 | 2024-07 |
| Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B | Nous Research | 46.1 | 2024-07 |
| Mixtral 8x7B v0.1 | Mistral AI | 46.1 | 2026-04 |
| Yi 1.5 9B Chat | 01.AI | 46.1 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 34B Chat | 01.AI | 46.1 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 6B Chat | 01.AI | 45.1 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 1.5 6B | 01.AI | 44.1 | 2024-07 |
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1 | Mistral AI | 43.1 | 2026-04 |
| Phi 3 mini 128K instruct | Microsoft | 43.1 | 2024-07 |
| Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 | Mistral AI | 42.2 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 9B | 01.AI | 42.2 | 2024-07 |
| Nous Hermes 2 SOLAR 10.7B | Nous Research | 41.2 | 2024-07 |
| gemma 7B it | Google DeepMind | 40.2 | 2024-07 |
| Qwen2 1.5B Instruct | Alibaba / Qwen Team | 40.2 | 2024-07 |
| phi 2 | Microsoft | 37.3 | 2024-07 |
| Phi 3 mini 4K instruct | Microsoft | 36.3 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 6B | 01.AI | 34.3 | 2024-07 |
| Yi 6B Chat | 01.AI | 34.3 | 2024-07 |
| Mistral 7B v0.3 | Mistral AI | 31.4 | 2024-07 |
| mistral 7B v0.3 bnb 4bit | Unsloth | 31.4 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek llm 7B base | DeepSeek | 29.4 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek llm 7B chat | DeepSeek | 29.4 | 2024-07 |
| falcon 40B | TII | 27.5 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek coder 1.3B base | DeepSeek | 25.5 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek coder 1.3B instruct | DeepSeek | 25.5 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek coder 6.7B base | DeepSeek | 25.5 | 2024-07 |
| Qwen2 0.5B Instruct | Alibaba / Qwen Team | 24.5 | 2024-07 |
| deepseek coder 6.7B instruct | DeepSeek | 23.5 | 2024-07 |
| OLMo 1B hf | Allen AI | 22.5 | 2024-07 |
| chatglm2 6B | Zhipu AI | 21.6 | 2024-07 |
| gemma 2B it | Google DeepMind | 18.6 | 2024-07 |
| gemma 2B | Google DeepMind | 14.7 | 2024-07 |