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Evaluation of OpenAI o1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI

arXiv 2409.18486 ↗First posted 27 Sep 2024cs.CLcited by 127

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This comprehensive study evaluates the performance of OpenAI's o1-preview large language model across a diverse array of complex reasoning tasks, spanning multiple domains, including computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, medicine, linguistics, and social sciences. Through rigorous testing, o1-preview demonstrated remarkable capabilities, often achieving human-level or superior performance in areas ranging from coding challenges to scientific reasoning and from language processing to creative problem-solving. Key findings include: -83.3% success rate in solving complex competitive programming problems, surpassing many human experts. -Superior ability in generating coherent and accurate radiology reports, outperforming other evaluated models. -100% accuracy in high school-level mathematical reasoning tasks, providing detailed step-by-step solutions. -Advanced natural language inference capabilities across general and specialized domains like medicine. -Impressive performance in chip design tasks, outperforming specialized models in areas such as EDA script generation and bug analysis. -Remarkable proficiency in anthropology and geology, demonstrating deep understanding and reasoning in these specialized fields. -Strong capabilities in quantitative investing. O1 has comprehensive financial knowledge and statistical modeling skills. -Effective performance in social media analysis, including sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. The model excelled particularly in tasks requiring intricate reasoning and knowledge integration across various fields. While some limitations were observed, including occasional errors on simpler problems and challenges with certain highly specialized concepts, the overall results indicate significant progress towards artificial general intelligence.

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  7. 2025MedReason: Eliciting Factual Medical Reasoning Steps in LLMs via Knowledge Graphscited by 105
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  9. 2025From AI for Science to Agentic Science: A Survey on Autonomous Scientific Discoverycited by 74
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  11. 2024A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challengescited by 55
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  4. 2025Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?cited by 33
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  6. 2025Generative to Agentic AI: Survey, Conceptualization, and Challengescited by 32
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  9. 2024Large Language Models Can Self-Improve in Long-context Reasoningcited by 29
  10. 2025Quantifying the Reasoning Abilities of LLMs on Real-world Clinical Casescited by 28
  11. 2025ReviewAgents: Bridging the Gap Between Human and AI-Generated Paper Reviewscited by 28
  12. 2024DiffKV: Differentiated Memory Management for Large Language Models with Parallel KV Compactioncited by 26
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  14. 2025MathAgent: Leveraging a Mixture-of-Math-Agent Framework for Real-World Multimodal Mathematical Error Detectioncited by 24
  15. 2025Stay Focused: Problem Drift in Multi-Agent Debatecited by 23
  16. 2025DianJin-R1: Evaluating and Enhancing Financial Reasoning in Large Language Modelscited by 22
  17. 2026Think Deep, Not Just Long: Measuring LLM Reasoning Effort via Deep-Thinking Tokenscited by 21
  18. 2025AutoP2C: An LLM-Based Agent Framework for Code Repository Generation from Multimodal Content in Academic Paperscited by 18
  19. 2025A Survey of Slow Thinking-based Reasoning LLMs using Reinforced Learning and Inference-time Scaling Lawcited by 18
  20. 2025THINK-Bench: Evaluating Thinking Efficiency and Chain-of-Thought Quality of Large Reasoning Modelscited by 18
  21. 2025ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoningcited by 17
  22. 2025Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Medical Large Language Modelscited by 17
  23. 2024A Systematic Assessment of OpenAI o1-Preview for Higher Order Thinking in Educationcited by 16
  24. 2025ThinkPatterns-21k: A Systematic Study on the Impact of Thinking Patterns in LLMscited by 16
  25. 2025RL of Thoughts: Navigating LLM Reasoning with Inference-time Reinforcement Learningcited by 16
  26. 2025Synthetic Data RL: Task Definition Is All You Needcited by 15
  27. 2025Marco-o1 v2: Towards Widening The Distillation Bottleneck for Reasoning Modelscited by 13
  28. 2025Joint Evaluation of Answer and Reasoning Consistency for Hallucination Detection in Large Reasoning Modelscited by 13
  29. 2024Transcending Language Boundaries: Harnessing LLMs for Low-Resource Language Translationcited by 12
  30. 2025Reasoning-as-Logic-Units: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Logic Unit Alignmentcited by 12
  31. 2025HiBench: Benchmarking LLMs Capability on Hierarchical Structure Reasoningcited by 12
  32. 2025Are Language Models Consequentialist or Deontological Moral Reasoners?cited by 12
  33. 2025Transformers Provably Learn Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Length Generalizationcited by 12
  34. 2024Towards Next-Generation Medical Agent: How o1 is Reshaping Decision-Making in Medical Scenarioscited by 10
  35. 2024Rethinking Chain-of-Thought from the Perspective of Self-Trainingcited by 10
  36. 2024ShapefileGPT: A Multi-Agent Large Language Model Framework for Automated Shapefile Processingcited by 9
  37. 2025CMCTS: A Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search Framework for Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Modelcited by 9
  38. 2025Aurelia: Test-time Reasoning Distillation in Audio-Visual LLMscited by 9

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