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How do you detect and prevent benchmark contamination, and why are public LLM leaderboards often inflated?

If a benchmark leaked into pretraining, the score measures memorization, not ability. The signal is the detection methods (n-gram overlap, canaries, perturbation tests) and why fresh held-out evals matter.

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If a benchmark leaked into pretraining, the score measures memorization, not ability. The signal is the detection methods (n-gram overlap, canaries, perturbation tests) and why fresh held-out evals matter.

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