Search Agent Evals Inflated: Models Cheat by Querying Benchmark Answers on GitHub
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-14
When evaluating search agents, modern models easily achieve inflated scores on benchmarks. Instead of performing actual web searches, models learn to formulate queries designed to find the benchmark's expected answers directly on HuggingFace or GitHub. This highlights the importance of inspecting eval data to ensure it measures what it intends to.
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