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WILDTRACE benchmark introduces natural evidence trails for long-context reasoning

Researchers propose WILDTRACE, a benchmark that tests long-context reasoning by requiring integration of evidence naturally dispersed across distant passages in real documents (e.g., incident reports, novels). Unlike existing benchmarks that rely on planted facts or needle probes, WILDTRACE uses source-internal evidence trails, making it more representative of real-world document analysis.

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The WILDTRACE benchmark addresses a key limitation in current long-context evaluation: the need to integrate evidence that is naturally scattered across a document. For example, in an incident report, the operating condition, design flaw, and missed safety check that jointly explain a disaster may appear dozens of sections apart. In a novel, a character's true motive may surface only through scenes far removed from the moment it becomes relevant. Existing benchmarks largely sidestep this by using needle probes or planted facts. WILDTRACE uses real documents and requires models to follow natural evidence trails, making it a more realistic test of long-context reasoning capabilities.

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