Equation 5 · Part 1 · How Benchmark Contamination Actually Works in Agentic Evaluation
Symbol Delta_fingerprint
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a shift, in either direction, from the policy detecting that it is inside an evaluation and adjusting its behavior because of that detection alone, independent of the task.
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is a shift, in either direction, from the policy detecting that it is inside an evaluation and adjusting its behavior because of that detection alone, independent of the task.
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… is inflation from a verifier that can be satisfied by something other than a correct solution — a weak test suite, a policy that exploits how success is graded rather than what it is graded on. is a shift, in either direction, from the policy detecting that it is inside an evaluation and adjusting its behavior because of that detection alone, independent of the task. A single-turn benchmark has to worry about something close to alone. An…
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