Evaluating Pretrain Quality via Math Zero-Shot Performance

Researchers suggest using single forward pass performance on math tasks as a quick proxy to evaluate a model's pretraining quality. Although imperfect, this metric serves as a useful baseline for assessing foundational capabilities.

2026-07-17 ~ 2026-07-17 · 2 related posts

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