tasks

Definition

The units of work a model is asked to perform, each defined by an input format, an output format, and a metric. That triple is what makes comparison possible at all. The plural typically appears in multi-task or transfer settings, where the claim is about breadth — doing well across many tasks, or on tasks unseen during training — rather than depth on any single one.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: SWE-bench Science — Can Coding Agents Fix Scientific Code?SWE-bench Science: Can Coding Agents Resolve Engineering Tasks in Science?
• Paper Walkthrough: SwanTale — Designing Voices from Words Alone, with Speech and Sound in One WaveformSwanTale: Unified Multi-Speaker Speech and Audio Generation for Instruct and Zero-Shot Tasks
• Paper Deep-Dive: Recursive Synthesis — Extending Verified Tasks Into 40,000 Long-Horizon Terminal ProblemsRecursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks