nvidia-profbench 25.11

Professional domain benchmark for evaluating LLMs on Physics PhD, Chemistry PhD, Finance MBA, and Consulting MBA tasks

NVIDIA Evals Factory

The goal of NVIDIA Evals Factory is to advance and refine state-of-the-art methodologies for model evaluation, and deliver them as modular evaluation packages (evaluation containers and pip wheels) that teams can use as standardized building blocks.

ProfBench

ProfBench is part of NVIDIA Evals Factory, providing standardized evaluation methodologies for assessing LLMs on professional domain tasks.

Overview

ProfBench introduces over 3000 expert-authored response–criterion pairs across 40 tasks in four professional domains: Physics PhD, Chemistry PhD, Finance MBA, and Consulting MBA. It enables evaluation of open-ended, document-grounded professional tasks beyond exam-style QA or code/math-only settings.

Key Features:

• Realistic professional workflows requiring synthesis and long-form analysis
• Robust, affordable LLM-Judge combining Macro-F1 measure with Bias Index
• Achieves <1% cross-provider bias while reducing costs by 2-3 orders of magnitude
• Evaluation cost: ~$12 per run (vs ~$300 for HealthBench, ~$8000 for PaperBench with OpenAI o3)

Even frontier models find ProfBench challenging: the best report-generator GPT-5-high reaches only 65.9% overall, underscoring substantial headroom in realistic professional workflows.

Quick Start Guide

NVIDIA Evals Factory provide you with evaluation clients, that are specifically built to evaluate model endpoints using our Standard API.

Launching an Evaluation

List the Available Evaluations

$ nemo-evaluator ls

Output:

profbench: 
  * report_generation
  * llm_judge

Run the Evaluation of Your Choice

LLM Judge Evaluation:

export API_KEY=your_nvidia_api_key_here

nemo-evaluator run_eval \
    --eval_type llm_judge \
    --model_id meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct \
    --model_type chat \
    --model_url https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
    --api_key_name API_KEY \
    --output_dir './results/profbench_llm_judge'

Report Generation Evaluation:

nemo-evaluator run_eval \
    --eval_type report_generation \
    --model_id meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct \
    --model_type chat \
    --model_url https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
    --api_key_name API_KEY \
    --output_dir './results/profbench_report_generation'

Gather the Results

cat ./results/profbench_llm_judge/results.yml

Example LLM Judge Output:

results:
  tasks:
    llm_judge:
      metrics:
        Overall:
          scores:
            Overall:
              value: 65.3
        Physics PhD:
          scores:
            Physics PhD:
              value: 66.5
        Chemistry PhD:
          scores:
            Chemistry PhD:
              value: 60.3
        Finance MBA:
          scores:
            Finance MBA:
              value: 61.4
        Consulting MBA:
          scores:
            Consulting MBA:
              value: 63.4
        BIAS-INDEX:
          scores:
            BIAS-INDEX:
              value: 4.0
        MF1-BI:
          scores:
            MF1-BI:
              value: 61.3

Example Report Generation Output:

results:
  tasks:
    report_generation:
      metrics:
        Overall:
          scores:
            Overall:
              value: 11.4
        Physics PhD:
          scores:
            Physics PhD:
              value: 3.4
        Chemistry PhD:
          scores:
            Chemistry PhD:
              value: 7.1
        Finance MBA:
          scores:
            Finance MBA:
              value: 6.0
        Consulting MBA:
          scores:
            Consulting MBA:
              value: 28.9

Command-Line Tool

Each package comes pre-installed with a set of command-line tools, designed to simplify the execution of evaluation tasks through the nemo-evaluator interface.

Commands

1. List Evaluation Types

nemo-evaluator ls

Displays the evaluation types available within the ProfBench harness.

2. Run an Evaluation

The nemo-evaluator run_eval command executes the evaluation process. Below are the flags and their descriptions:

Required Flags:

• --eval_type <string> - The type of evaluation to perform (llm_judge or report_generation)
• --model_id <string> - The name or identifier of the model to evaluate
• --model_url <url> - The API endpoint where the model is accessible
• --model_type <string> - The type of the model to evaluate, currently either chat, completions, or vlm
• --output_dir <directory> - The directory to use as the working directory for the evaluation. The results, including the results.yml output file, will be saved here

Optional Flags:

• --api_key_name <string> - The name of the environment variable that stores the Bearer token for the API, if authentication is required
• --run_config <path> - Specifies the path to a YAML file containing the evaluation definition
• --overrides <string> - Override configuration parameters (e.g., "config.params.limit_samples=10")
• --dry_run - Print the final run configuration and command without executing the evaluation

Example

nemo-evaluator run_eval \
    --eval_type llm_judge \
    --model_id meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct \
    --model_type chat \
    --model_url https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
    --output_dir ./evaluation_results

If the model API requires authentication, set the API key in an environment variable and reference it using the --api_key_name flag:

export API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

nemo-evaluator run_eval \
    --eval_type llm_judge \
    --model_id meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct \
    --model_type chat \
    --model_url https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
    --api_key_name API_KEY \
    --output_dir ./evaluation_results

Configuring Evaluations via YAML

Evaluations in NVIDIA Evals Factory are configured using YAML files that define the parameters and settings required for the evaluation process. These configuration files follow a standard API which ensures consistency across evaluations.

Example of a YAML config:

config:
  type: llm_judge
  params:
    parallelism: 10
    limit_samples: 30
    max_new_tokens: 4096
    temperature: 0.0
    top_p: 0.00001
target:
  api_endpoint:
    model_id: meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct
    type: chat
    url: https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions
    api_key: API_KEY

The priority of overrides is as follows:

1. Command line arguments
2. User config (as seen above)
3. Task defaults (defined per task type)
4. Framework defaults

--dry_run option allows you to print the final run configuration and command without executing the evaluation.

Example:

nemo-evaluator run_eval \
    --eval_type llm_judge \
    --model_id meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct \
    --model_type chat \
    --model_url https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \
    --output_dir ./evaluation_results \
    --dry_run

FAQ

Deploying a Model as an Endpoint

NVIDIA Evals Factory utilize a client-server communication architecture to interact with the model. As a prerequisite, the model must be deployed as an endpoint with a NIM-compatible API.

Users have the flexibility to deploy their model using their own infrastructure and tooling.

Servers with APIs that conform to the OpenAI/NIM API standard are expected to work seamlessly out of the box.

Evaluation Types

1. LLM Judge (llm_judge)

Evaluates model responses against expert-authored criteria across professional domains.

• Assesses professional reasoning, extraction accuracy, and writing style
• Provides domain-specific scores (Physics PhD, Chemistry PhD, Finance MBA, Consulting MBA)
• Includes bias metrics (BIAS-INDEX, MF1-BI) to measure self-enhancement bias

2. Report Generation (report_generation)

End-to-end evaluation pipeline for professional report writing.

• Generates professional reports from prompts
• Uses LLM-as-a-judge to evaluate generated reports
• Scores across domains and skill dimensions (Reasoning, Extraction, Style)

Metrics Explained

Domain Scores: Performance on specific professional domains:

• Physics PhD
• Chemistry PhD
• Finance MBA
• Consulting MBA

Supported Libraries

• openai - OpenAI API and OpenAI-compatible endpoints (NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, vLLM, etc.)

Note: Web search features are only available with Google GenAI library. This feature will raise NotImplementedError if used with OpenAI or OpenRouter APIs.

Contributing

This software is distributed as a pip wheel only. The source repository is internal to NVIDIA and not publicly accessible. For issues or questions, please refer to the NVIDIA support channels.

License

This software is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). See LICENSE and LICENSE-APACHE for details.