Lab Bench (ProtocolQA)

Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) is a benchmark for safe and responsible behaviour. The official description says: "Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) - wet-lab protocol question answering benchmark evaluating practical lab knowledge". Below we describe in simple words what benchmarks of this type generally examine.

Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) measures safe and responsible behaviour. In detail, it checks:

• refusing harmful requests while still helping on benign ones
• resisting attempts to bypass safety rules
• avoiding dangerous, inaccurate or policy-violating output
• flagging uncertainty instead of confidently producing unsafe answers

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Official methodology note: Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) - wet-lab protocol question answering benchmark evaluating practical lab knowledge. Part of Meta's preparedness evaluation suite.

What is the Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) benchmark?

Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) is a benchmark for safe and responsible behaviour. The official description says: 'Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) - wet-lab protocol question answering benchmark evaluating practical lab knowledge'. Below we describe in simple words what benchmarks of this type generally examine.

What does Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) test?

Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) mainly measures safe and responsible behaviour. Concretely, it checks: refusing harmful requests while still helping on benign ones; resisting attempts to bypass safety rules; avoiding dangerous, inaccurate or policy-violating output.

How is the Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) score calculated?

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better. The declared maximum score of this benchmark is 100.0.

Where do I get Lab Bench (ProtocolQA) data and scores?

The official benchmark page/reference is linked on this page. Every score on Open LLM Radar is also available as open data: download the scores JSON (http://open-llm-radar-api:8000/api/v1/benchmarks/lab-bench-protocolqa/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.