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evilmathkidyesterday at 8:07 PM1 replyview on HN

2 different things are being called leakage here

1) weight update during eval: this is a form of test time training and not really cheating. It is also closer to Sutton's views of intelligence: models should learn during deployment, instead of being frozen after training

2) overfitting: agree that true measure is private set. It scores on private set roughly on par with TRM (a comparable model), obv with much lesser compute

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also re LLMs: they do not follow this 3 split since (a) Incredibly hard to keep a pretrain dataset clean, (b) common in labs to benchmaxx during postraining (and known to do so on ARC)


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piqufohyesterday at 8:19 PM

> weight update during eval: this is a form of test time training and not really cheating.

Possibly "not really cheating", but it does make benchmark comparisons unfair - especially as the other models are unlikely to have their weights updated during the eval.

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