Benchmarks and results
Run PolicyBench for public-policy reasoning
Study policy understanding and application using the preserved U.S. PolicyBench configuration and structured facets.
The basic idea
PolicyBench can test whether a Council effect extends beyond hard science into policy reasoning. The imported source preserves jurisdiction, policy name, question type, classification, explanation, reasoning level, original ID, and provenance.
Focus a primary analysis on U.S. understanding and application items while retaining memorization items in the raw authoritative dataset for transparent secondary work.
How to do it
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Confirm that PolicyBench is marked cleared for the intended use before execution.
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Select the U.S. jurisdiction and the prespecified understanding or application levels.
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Choose item count, sampling, seed, protocol arm, and replications.
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Report malformed and ineligible source records in the flow diagram rather than silently dropping them.
What to watch for
- License review status controls whether the dataset can be launched in the product.
- Original numeric IDs restart by level; composite IDs prevent collisions while preserving the source ID.
- Items without valid answer keys cannot enter objective scoring.
What a useful result looks like
The benchmark supports an auditable cross-domain test of heterogeneous deliberation on public-policy questions.