Vik Paruchuri answers 'self-topped benchmark is suspect' with open audit

VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-25

Following his OCR benchmark post, Vik Paruchuri acknowledges "it's always a little suspect when someone has their own models benchmarked at the top" and points to the remedy: every adapter is in the public repo, and all scores can be audited via the dataset card and audit pages, with a per-category breakdown attached. An open-transparency response to conflict-of-interest concerns around the OCR benchmark.

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