Equation 13 · How to Actually Compare Frontier AI Models Without Building a Misleading Leaderboard
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Reported variance, not a bare point estimate. A score computed from n independent trials with an underlying success probability carries a standard error of roughly
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- [11] Artificial Analysis Intelligence Benchmarking Methodology ↗
- [1] Adding Error Bars to Evals: A Statistical Approach to Language Model Evaluations ↗
- [9] About: the Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub ↗
- [10] SWE-bench Verified ↗
- [5] simple-evals: a lightweight library for evaluating language models ↗
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