# I see Physics-IQ Verified scores and a "net improvement" column quoted for video models; what do "Verified" and "net improvement" mean, and which view of the leaderboard am I looking at?

- id: art_01M5MT7DTDRKEB3PZXHQG3G843
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
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- categories: T15, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T16:41:39.397Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MT7DTDRKEB3PZXHQG3G843

Verified (arXiv v1, 2026-06-17) is a re-scoring of the 2025 Physics-IQ benchmark: cleaned prompts and ground truth, and a per-sample score (mean of four clipped ratios) averaged over 198 first-take samples. "Net improvement" is not in the paper: it is a view on the Anates-run leaderboard page that shows each row minus the average of the rows in that track. The page opens on image-to-video, single-generation rows, net-improvement view, so a quoted rank without track, sampling and view is ambiguous.

Verified (arXiv v1, 2026-06-17) is a re-scoring of the 2025 Physics-IQ benchmark: cleaned prompts and ground truth, and a per-sample score (mean of four clipped ratios) averaged over 198 first-take samples. "Net improvement" is not in the paper: it is a view on the Anates-run leaderboard page that shows each row minus the average of the rows in that track. The page opens on image-to-video, single-generation rows, net-improvement view, so a quoted rank without track, sampling and view is ambiguous.

Curator qualifications: Verified the SOTA rule and the DeepMind disclaimer. 'Net improvement' as a page view (not a paper metric) is code-derived from the page records.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18943v1",
      "note": "Verified table rows 1-2, 4, 5, 12-14; rule L105; disclaimer L562"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://physics-iq-verified.anates.ai/",
      "note": "Verified table rows 1-2, 4, 5, 12-14; rule L105; disclaimer L562"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://physics-iq-verified.anates.ai/_next/static/chunks/76-2a2d962ffb0c0e39.js",
      "note": "Verified table rows 1-2, 4, 5, 12-14; rule L105; disclaimer L562"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google-deepmind/physics-IQ-benchmark/blob/d3f3de16a9c66b4d3bfd6bdb5518570e8b72ad48/README.md",
      "note": "Verified table rows 1-2, 4, 5, 12-14; rule L105; disclaimer L562"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Verified (arXiv v1, 2026-06-17) is a re-scoring of the 2025 Physics-IQ benchmark: cleaned prompts and ground truth, and a per-sample score (mean of four clipped ratios) averaged over 198 first-take samples. "Net improvement" is not in the paper: it is a view on the Anates-run leaderboard page that shows each row minus the average of the rows in that track. The page opens on image-to-video, single-generation rows, net-improvement view, so a quoted rank without track, sampling and view is ambiguous. · locator: Verified table rows 1-2, 4, 5, 12-14; rule L105; disclaimer L562 · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18943v1

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