Researcher warns: without auditing your evals, you're just fitting benchmark biases and noise
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-26
Antoine Chaffin warns that if you're not properly auditing and improving the evaluations you run, there's a very large chance you're just fitting benchmark biases and noise. The reblogger adds: look at your data even when you're getting good scores — a direct caution against leaderboard overfitting.
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