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Senior SWE-bench built by Snorkel with Princeton University and UW-Madison
Continual Learning Bench: Evaluating agents that adapt and improve over time
Learning from Less: Measuring the Effectiveness of RLVR in Low Data Compute Regimes
Agents' Last Exam: Challenge and measure AI agents on economically valuable and real-world tasks
SlopCodeBench: A community benchmark measuring code erosion
Harvey’s BigLaw Bench: Research
Terminal-Bench 2.0: Raising the bar for AI agent evaluation
Benchmarking Agents in Insurance Underwriting Environments
Agentic Coding benchmark: Evaluating AI Models on complex, real-world coding tasks
Vision and impact
We help labs advance frontier models by working with domain experts to design and build complex, realistic datasets that drive model performance.
Benchmarking & Evaluation
Build benchmarks that define and advance the AI frontier
Scaling Subject Matter Expertise
Define how subject matter experts encode their knowledge into data
RL, Training, & Data Valuation
Drive dataset development based on feedback from RL and model training
Community and open science
Open benchmarks, conversations, and research for real-world AI performance.
Open Benchmarks Grants
Backed by a $3M commitment, the program funds open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built and evaluated.
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SlopCodeBench reveals how AI coding agents degrade code quality over time—measuring “slop,” technical debt, and architectural erosion across iterations.
Today, we’re sharing details about the Snorkel Agentic Coding benchmark—a comprehensive evaluation suite designed to test whether agents can handle the full complexity of software engineering work.
We just returned from NeurIPS 2025, and we’re still processing everything we saw. The energy around data-centric AI has never been stronger—and we couldn’t be more grateful to the research community for pushing these ideas forward.
Explores how rubrics support agentic, multi-turn, tool-using, multimodal, and code-generating AI systems, and how they evolve with AI feedback and ensemble evaluation.
TL;DR: We stress-tested the “generate → criticize → improve” loop on 50 visual reasoning tasks. The results were counterintuitive: self-critique acts as a corrosive agent on high-performance tasks, turning 98% accuracy into 57%. Yet, for tasks where models fail completely, it works like magic. This difficulty-dependent behavior poses a critical, hidden risk for RLFT pipelines. The promise vs. the reality…
Snorkel Chief Scientist Fred Sala and Kobie Crawford chat with the Terminal-Bench team to unpack the design behind Terminal-Bench 2.0 and the new Harbor framework.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the dominant paradigm for improving the performance of language models on complex reasoning tasks. Despite the substantial empirical gains demonstrated by RL-based training methods like GRPO, a granular understanding of why and how RL enhances performance is still lacking. To bridge this gap, we introduce SPARKLE, a fine-grained analytic framework to dissect the effects of…
Snorkel AI contributes specialized datasets to Hazy Research’s “Intelligence-per-Watt” study, advancing how efficiently AI turns energy into intelligence.
Large language model (LLM) queries are predominantly processed by frontier models in centralized cloud infrastructure. Rapidly growing demand strains this paradigm, and cloud providers struggle to scale infrastructure at pace. Two advances enable us to rethink this paradigm: small LMs (<=20B active parameters) now achieve competitive performance to frontier models on many tasks, and local accelerators (e.g., Apple M4 Max)…
