The Art of Manipulating Benchmark Metrics
JJitsev · x · 2026-07-13
This post roasts "the art of benchmarks": inventing a scoring system no one uses to package your own model as the champion.
The post points out that SOOFI is essentially replicating the evaluation approach of open Nemotron 3, but its capability index makes Qwen 3 32B look weaker than some larger models with less meaningful metrics. The author uses this to criticize how such evaluation designs can be misleading.
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