AI2 ARC
Allen Institute for AIBenchmark of 7,787 grade-school science questions assembled to study advanced question answering, split into an Easy set of 5,197 and a Challenge set of 2,590. Published by the Allen Institute for AI in 2018, it remains a standard multiple-choice reasoning evaluation in model release reports.
Openness
5 high confidence- data
- open(7,787 questions, downloadable on HF)
- license
- CC-BY-SA-4.0(open data license, redistributable)
- datasheet
- yes(HF dataset card + arXiv paper)
- access
- public(train/val/test splits all released, not held-out)
Fully open under CC-BY-SA-4.0 with dataset card; the canonical open-data benchmark profile.
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/ai2_arc recorded 2026-09-29
The dataset page lists the license tag "license:cc-by-sa-4.0", embeds repo state "gated":false, and its card describes "genuine grade-school level, multiple-choice science questions, assembled to encourage research in" question answering; the card's Licensing Information section itself reads "More Information Needed", so the license is stated only in the card metadata tag.
Adoption
4 high confidenceAdoption is measured through Hugging Face downloads of allenai/ai2_arc. ARC is a widely cited standard reasoning benchmark, appearing routinely in frontier model release reports, and this category counts dataset downloads on a far smaller scale than it does for software or models.
- https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/allenai/ai2_arc recorded 2026-08-12
472,342 downloads in the trailing 30 days for allenai/ai2_arc
Capability
not assessedCapability is not a meaningful axis for an eval dataset, so it is left unscored.
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/ai2_arc recorded 2026-09-29
Dataset card summary: "genuine grade-school level, multiple-choice science questions, assembled to encourage research in" question answering, split into a Challenge Set and an Easy Set; searched the body for accuracy, SOTA, non-commercial and held-out: none, and no performance or feature claim.
Verified 2026-09-27