Scorecard of AI Benchmark Quality

Ayrton San Joaquin, Rokas Gipiškis, Ze Shen Chin


Abstract
Effective AI risk assessment relies on the quality of evaluations. Currently, there are large quality differences, such as in construct validity and annotation, between existing benchmarks. In this work, we propose a quality scorecard for benchmarks designed to make this diversity easier to navigate. The scorecard employs two main components: dimensions, which provide granular scores of an evaluation under that dimension, and classifications, which correspond to concrete use-cases ranging from research to post-deployment. By establishing a common language and objective methods, this framework aims to aid in transparency and raise the baseline quality of benchmarks used across the ecosystem.
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2026.evaleval-1.25
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations (EvalEval)
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July
Year:
2026
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San Diego, CA
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Mubashara Akhtar, Jan Batzner, Leshem Choshen, Avijit Ghosh, Usman Gohar, Jennifer Mickel, Ichhya Pant, Zeerak Talat, Michelle Lin
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EvalEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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128–160
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.evaleval-1.25/
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Ayrton San Joaquin, Rokas Gipiškis, and Ze Shen Chin. 2026. Scorecard of AI Benchmark Quality. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations (EvalEval), pages 128–160, San Diego, CA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Scorecard of AI Benchmark Quality (San Joaquin et al., EvalEval 2026)
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