---
license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - arithmetic
  - integer-arithmetic
  - lm-eval-harness
  - base-models
  - list-aggregates
pretty_name: Numeric Mini
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: min
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: min/test-*
  - config_name: max
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: max/test-*
  - config_name: sum
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: sum/test-*
  - config_name: count
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: count/test-*
  - config_name: sort
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: sort/test-*
---

# numeric-mini

Fixed-NL-template integer aggregation over short lists. Built as
**tier 2** of the eval design in
[byte_v2/design/eval/design_v2.md](https://example.com) (internal).

The original spec called for sourcing these tasks from TreeAILab/NumericBench,
but NumericBench is MCQ-style with decimal operands and ability labels that
don't cleanly contain min/max/sum/count/sort over plain integer lists, so this
dataset is generated locally to match the spec's intent and the integer-only
constraint.

## Configs

| config | template | n_test |
|--------|----------|-------:|
| `min`   | `What is the minimum of the list [...]?` | 200 |
| `max`   | `What is the maximum of the list [...]?` | 200 |
| `sum`   | `What is the sum of the list [...]?` | 200 |
| `count` | `How many times does X appear in the list [...]?` | 200 |
| `sort`  | `After sorting the list [...] in ascending order, what is the K-th element?` | 200 |

## Construction

- List length **5**, operands sampled uniformly from `[10, 99]` (2-digit integers).
- `count`: target is drawn 50/50 from `{element of list, fresh integer not in list}`
  to balance zero-count and positive-count cases.
- `sort`: K ∈ {1..5} uniform; the answer is the K-th element after ascending sort.

## Schema

| field      | type | example | description |
|------------|------|---------|-------------|
| `list`     | list[int] | `[59, 63, 15, 43, 75]` | the input list |
| `question` | str  | `"What is the minimum of the list [59, 63, 15, 43, 75]?"` | prompt |
| `label`    | int  | `15` | gold answer (integer) |
| `target`   | int  | `71`  | (count only) the value to count |
| `k`        | int  | `3`   | (sort only) 1-indexed K |
| `ordinal`  | str  | `"third"` | (sort only) ordinal word for K |

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("cyanfi/numeric-mini", "sum", split="test")
print(ds[0])
```