license: mit
language:
- en
pretty_name: ThoughtDAG Context Repair Benchmark
tags:
- llm
- context-engineering
- context-repair
- benchmark
- graph
- human-in-the-loop
configs:
- config_name: cases
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/cases.jsonl
- config_name: endpoint_results
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/endpoint_results.jsonl
- config_name: reasoning_ablation
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/reasoning_ablation.jsonl
ThoughtDAG Context Repair Benchmark
What happens after one wrong assumption enters a long LLM conversation?
This dataset turns context editing into a measurable intervention. Each synthetic case starts with a clean fact, introduces a false update, lets the error propagate through one to three downstream turns, and then asks the same final question under five graph conditions:
cleanpollutedsource_prunesubgraph_prunerecompute_descendants
The central question is not only whether a model notices bad context. It is whether different graph edits repair the answer after that context has already shaped later turns.
These are pilot/reference results for studying context intervention. They are not an authoritative model leaderboard.
Interactive report · Code and reproducible pipeline · ThoughtDAG
Dataset contents
| Config | Rows | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
cases |
27 | Nine independent problem families at three propagation depths, including graph structure, interventions, exact-match gold answers, and scorer definitions |
endpoint_results |
1,215 | Five conditions for every case across nine model endpoints |
reasoning_ablation |
270 | The same 135 conditions under a controlled reasoning-on versus reasoning-off comparison on one endpoint |
Convenience summaries are also included as data/endpoint_summary.csv and data/reasoning_ablation_summary.csv.
Reference finding
Across the nine-endpoint panel, 162 paired model-cases were first correct in the clean graph and then derailed by the polluted graph.
| Intervention | Repaired |
|---|---|
| Delete the false source only | 152 / 162 |
| Delete the contaminated subgraph | 162 / 162 |
| Delete the source and recompute descendants | 161 / 162 |
Deleting a false source can be insufficient because downstream answers may already contain its consequences. Removing the affected subgraph or rebuilding descendants repaired more of these pilot cases.
Controlled reasoning ablation
On one text-only endpoint, reasoning was explicitly toggled per request while the cases, decoding temperature, graph compiler, and scorer were held fixed. Source-only pruning repaired 16 of 18 derailed cases with reasoning enabled and 2 of 18 with reasoning disabled. The paired source-prune comparison produced an exact two-sided McNemar p-value of 0.0001220703125.
This is a narrow ablation on one endpoint. It does not establish a general causal claim about reasoning across models.
Schema
cases
case_id,family_id,pollution_operator,propagation_depthfinal_question,gold_answer,distractor_markersgraph_json: nodes and directed context edgesconditions_json: graph operations for each interventionscorer_json: declarative exact-match scorer
The three JSON fields are serialized strings so the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer can display a stable tabular schema. Parse them with json.loads when using the graph structures programmatically.
Result configs
Each result row identifies the case, run, provider, endpoint model, reasoning mode, condition, raw answer, extracted answer, exact-match result, format compliance, usage, latency, cost, compiler version, scorer version, and source commit.
The public dataset intentionally excludes API keys, environment-variable names, endpoint configuration, and raw provider traces. Immutable traces remain in the source repository for audit and reproduction.
Load with datasets
from datasets import load_dataset
cases = load_dataset(
"thoughtdag/context-repair-benchmark",
"cases",
split="test",
)
results = load_dataset(
"thoughtdag/context-repair-benchmark",
"endpoint_results",
split="test",
)
Reproduce or add an endpoint
The GitHub repository is the canonical home for executable code, immutable traces, and contributions. To re-score an existing run without making API calls:
git clone https://github.com/chenxiachan/thoughtdag.git
cd thoughtdag
npm install
BENCH_SUITE=pilot-v1 node benchmark/tools/score.mjs pilot-v1-nemotron-nano-9b
To evaluate another model, create a run envelope and use the capture pipeline documented in benchmark/README.md. Please submit new cases, endpoint results, or methodology critiques through the GitHub issue tracker.
Design and limitations
- All 27 cases are synthetic English symbolic tasks with exact numeric answers.
- Depth variants within a family are repeated measures, not independent samples.
- The model panel is heterogeneous and several endpoints used free-tier routing at the recorded dates.
- Exact-match scoring makes the benchmark auditable, but it does not represent the full range of real research conversations.
- Reported findings should remain labeled as pilot/reference evidence until a larger preregistered suite is completed.
License and citation
The dataset and benchmark code are released under the MIT License. Until a versioned archival citation is issued, please cite the repository and record the dataset revision or source_commit used in your analysis:
Chen, Xia. ThoughtDAG Context Repair Benchmark.
https://github.com/chenxiachan/thoughtdag/tree/main/benchmark



