Benchmark contamination is when benchmark data leaks into a model's training data, so the model has effectively seen the test before taking…
Yes, the harness affects LLM performance, and it affects it a lot. You do not ship a model. You ship a system: a prompt, an agent loop, tool…
Use a public benchmark to survey the field and shortlist models. Use a private eval to decide what you ship. A benchmark is a shared public…
Contamination-free LLM evaluation means testing a model on data it could not have seen during training. If your evaluation set overlaps with…