diff --git a/opencompass/datasets/matbench/post_process.py b/opencompass/datasets/matbench/post_process.py
index 70bcf8d3..465b21f4 100644
--- a/opencompass/datasets/matbench/post_process.py
+++ b/opencompass/datasets/matbench/post_process.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def numerical_llmjudge_postprocess(
             except KeyError:
                 get_logger().warning(
                     f'No gold answer for {k}, use empty string as reference!')
-                references.append('')
+                references.append(0) #looks like when creating the dataset object the False and 0 value will not be assign a gold value, likely does not inflence the LLM judge, here we just restore the 0 value here.
     results = get_numerical_final_results(judged_answers, references, origial_responses)
     # results['details'] = output
     return results