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Gareth321 • today at 8:01 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Benchmaxing is defined as targeted post-training attempts to optimise for higher benchmarks. This doesn’t change the aggregate intelligence or capability of the model, so it can make a model appear more capable than it is.


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ozgung • today at 9:16 AM

I’m pretty sure “benchmaxxing” as defined is a standard post-training procedure for ALL models.

One can argue though some models are post-trained heavily for specific benchmarks and less for other datasets. So they are weaker on out of distribution tasks.

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