Reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension benchmarks strongly overlap, study finds
sanmikoyejo · x · 2026-09-29
Benchmarks claiming to measure reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension correlate strongly with each other, suggesting they may not be capturing distinct concepts.
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