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DROP — AI Glossary

A reading comprehension benchmark requiring discrete reasoning operations (addition, counting, sorting) over paragraph text. F1-scored.

Overview

DROP (Dua et al. 2019) requires answering questions that cannot be answered by span extraction alone—they need arithmetic over numbers mentioned in the text, counting entity occurrences, or sorting dates. F1-scored. Frontier LLMs score >90%; tests quantitative reasoning in context beyond pure language understanding.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is DROP?

A reading comprehension benchmark requiring discrete reasoning operations (addition, counting, sorting) over paragraph text.

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