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OpenCompass is a modular platform for scalable, high-concurrency evaluation of large language models across diverse benchmarks.

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load-bearing objection OpenCompass is a straightforward open-source release of a modular LLM eval platform, but the paper offers no data or comparisons to show its claimed advantages over existing tools. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2605.19276 v3 pith:CKIX5LFS submitted 2026-05-19 cs.CL cs.LG

OpenCompass: A Universal Evaluation Platform for Large Language Models

classification cs.CL cs.LG
keywords OpenCompassLLM evaluationevaluation platformmodular designlarge language modelsbenchmark datasetshigh concurrencyevaluation workflow
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The paper proposes OpenCompass to address challenges in LLM evaluation such as task diversity, inconsistent criteria, and fragmented workflows. It uses a design of modularization and component decoupling to achieve high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency. A sympathetic reader would care because efficient, objective evaluation is needed to track LLM progress and guide improvements. The platform supports many benchmarks in domains like knowledge, reasoning, and code, along with multiple evaluator types. It is positioned as a unified tool for both academic and industrial users.

Core claim

OpenCompass is presented as a one-stop, scalable, and high-concurrency-supported general-purpose LLM evaluation platform. It adheres to modularization and component decoupling to deliver high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency. The core architecture comprises five components: the Configuration System, Task Partitioning Module, Execution and Scheduling Module, Task Execution Unit, and Result Visualization Module. The workflow includes rule-based, LLM-as-a-Judge, and cascaded evaluators, while supporting mainstream benchmark datasets across domains including knowledge, reasoning, computation, science, language, and code.

What carries the argument

The five-component architecture of OpenCompass (Configuration System, Task Partitioning Module, Execution and Scheduling Module, Task Execution Unit, and Result Visualization Module) that implements the modular evaluation workflow.

Load-bearing premise

Modularization and component decoupling will deliver the claimed high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency while resolving task diversity, inconsistent criteria, and workflow fragmentation.

What would settle it

A controlled test measuring setup time, throughput, and scalability when running the same set of diverse LLM benchmarks on OpenCompass versus conventional static methods, showing no measurable gains.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes and open-sources OpenCompass, a one-stop, scalable, and high-concurrency-supported general-purpose LLM evaluation platform. Adhering to modularization and component decoupling, it claims three core advantages (high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency) via a five-component architecture (Configuration System, Task Partitioning Module, Execution and Scheduling Module, Task Execution Unit, Result Visualization Module) that supports rule-based, LLM-as-Judge, and cascaded evaluators along with mainstream benchmarks across knowledge, reasoning, computation, science, language, and code domains.

Significance. If the modular design can be shown to deliver measurable improvements in handling task diversity, inconsistent criteria, and workflow fragmentation, OpenCompass could serve as a useful standardized tool for the community. The open-sourcing aspect strengthens potential impact by enabling reproducibility and adoption.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claims that modularization and the five-component architecture deliver high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency are presented without any supporting throughput numbers, ablation studies, compatibility matrices, or head-to-head comparisons against existing evaluators; this leaves the central claim unsubstantiated.
  2. [Core Architecture] Core architecture description: the workflow outline with rule/LLM-as-Judge/cascaded evaluators is given at a high level only, with no implementation details, interaction diagrams, or evidence showing how component decoupling resolves the named challenges of task diversity and workflow fragmentation.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract states support for 'mainstream benchmark datasets' but provides no explicit list of included datasets or example configurations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address the two major comments point by point below, acknowledging where additional substantiation is needed and outlining revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claims that modularization and the five-component architecture deliver high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency are presented without any supporting throughput numbers, ablation studies, compatibility matrices, or head-to-head comparisons against existing evaluators; this leaves the central claim unsubstantiated.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract presents the claimed advantages at a high level without quantitative support. The manuscript focuses on the design and open-source release to enable community evaluation of these properties. To strengthen the submission, we will revise the abstract to temper the claims and add a dedicated evaluation section with throughput measurements, basic compatibility examples across evaluators, and comparisons against existing platforms such as LM-Eval and HELM. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Core Architecture] Core architecture description: the workflow outline with rule/LLM-as-Judge/cascaded evaluators is given at a high level only, with no implementation details, interaction diagrams, or evidence showing how component decoupling resolves the named challenges of task diversity and workflow fragmentation.

    Authors: The architecture section outlines the five components and evaluator types at a conceptual level. We acknowledge that concrete implementation details, sequence diagrams, and explicit mappings from component decoupling to the challenges of task diversity and workflow fragmentation are missing. In the revision we will expand this section with pseudocode for key modules, an interaction diagram, and case studies illustrating how the modular design handles diverse tasks and inconsistent criteria. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: platform description with no derivations or self-referential claims

full rationale

The document is a software platform description paper. It presents a five-component architecture and workflow for LLM evaluation but contains no equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or derivation chains. Advantages (compatibility, flexibility, concurrency) are asserted from modular design philosophy without reducing to self-citations, ansatzes, or input data by construction. No load-bearing steps match any enumerated circularity pattern; the central claims are engineering assertions open to external validation rather than self-referential reductions.

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No mathematical model, derivations, or empirical claims; the work is a systems and tooling description with no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities.

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In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence has undergone a paradigm shift from task-specific small-scale models to general-purpose large language models (LLMs). With the rapid iteration of LLMs, objective, quantitative, and comprehensive evaluation of their capabilities has become a critical link in advancing technological development. Currently, the mainstream static benchmark dataset-based evaluation methods face challenges such as the diversity of task types, inconsistent evaluation criteria, and fragmentation of data and processing workflows, making it difficult to efficiently conduct cross-domain and large-scale model evaluation. To address the aforementioned issues, this paper proposes and open-sources OpenCompass, a one-stop, scalable, and high-concurrency-supported general-purpose LLM evaluation platform. Adhering to the design philosophy of modularization and component decoupling, the platform boasts three core advantages: high compatibility, flexibility, and high concurrency. The core architecture of OpenCompass comprises five key components: the Configuration System, Task Partitioning Module, Execution and Scheduling Module, Task Execution Unit, and Result Visualization Module. Its workflow provides rule-based, LLM-as-a-Judge, and cascaded evaluators to adapt to the requirements of different task scenarios. Supporting mainstream benchmark datasets across multiple domains, including knowledge, reasoning, computation, science, language, code, etc., the platform offers a unified and efficient LLM evaluation tool for both academia and industry, facilitating the accurate identification of strengths and weaknesses of LLMs as well as their subsequent optimization.

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