# Long-context language understanding on RULER 16K

Source: [Long-context language understanding on RULER 16K](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-06-01T09:27:01.703Z

Evaluation of model performance on the RULER 16K dataset for long-context language understanding, reporting scores for CWE, FWE, NIAH subtasks (MK1-MK3, MQ, MV, S1-S3), QA tasks (1 & 2), VT, and overall average.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Long-context language understanding |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | RULER 16K |
| Metric | CWE Score |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 18 of 18 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [CWE Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=CWE%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [FWE Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=FWE%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH MK1 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20MK1%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH MK2 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20MK2%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH MK3 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20MK3%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH MQ Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20MQ%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH MV Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20MV%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH S1 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20S1%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH S2 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20S2%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NIAH S3 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=NIAH%20S3%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [QA 1 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=QA%201%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [QA 2 Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=QA%202%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [VT Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=VT%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Overall Average Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=Overall%20Average%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Tasks Better Than Baseline Count](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/long-context-language-understanding-on-ruler-16k.md?metric=Tasks%20Better%20Than%20Baseline%20Count>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | CWE Score | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Full Cache | 89.28 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| Full Cache | 82.64 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV | 77.66 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. GRKV | 77.4 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. GRKV | 70.38 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV | 68.32 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. D2O | 65.64 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. D2O | 59.96 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. CaM | 43.3 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. CaM | 42.42 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. GRKV | 42.22 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV | 41.9 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV | 22.68 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. GRKV | 20.3 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. D2O | 12.9 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| CriticalKV w. CaM | 4.94 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. D2O | 3.9 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |
| SnapKV w. CaM | 3.58 | Not recorded | 6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047 |

### Full Cache

CWE Score: 89.28. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d837.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"Full"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Full Cache

CWE Score: 82.64. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d840.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"Full"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV

CWE Score: 77.66. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d845.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa76e11e209131cea6f9a0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. GRKV

CWE Score: 77.4. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d848.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. GRKV

CWE Score: 70.38. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d844.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV

CWE Score: 68.32. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d841.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73b21e209131cea5df89.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/FasterDecoding/SnapKV>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. D2O

CWE Score: 65.64. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d847.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa77691e209131cea731da.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. D2O

CWE Score: 59.96. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d843.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa77691e209131cea731da.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. CaM

CWE Score: 43.3. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d846.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. CaM

CWE Score: 42.42. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d842.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. GRKV

CWE Score: 42.22. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV

CWE Score: 41.9. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa76e11e209131cea6f9a0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV

CWE Score: 22.68. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d838.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73b21e209131cea5df89.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/FasterDecoding/SnapKV>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. GRKV

CWE Score: 20.3. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. D2O

CWE Score: 12.9. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa77691e209131cea731da.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CriticalKV w. CaM

CWE Score: 4.94. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. D2O

CWE Score: 3.9. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d83a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa77691e209131cea731da.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SnapKV w. CaM

CWE Score: 3.58. Result ID: 6a1d504afbc373592c16d839.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a1d1227dbd7150506f84047.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct","Cache Budget":"20%"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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