Equation 5 · Ten Ways an Agent Evaluation Can Mislead You Even When It's Working Correctly
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the highest m selects simultaneously for high. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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for some error term uncorrelated with U , then selecting the run with the highest M selects simultaneously for high U and for large favorable — the optimizer is drawn toward the tail of the error term as reliably as toward genuine capability, and the more intensely M is optimized, the larger a share of the observed gain is rather than U .
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- [2] 'Improving ratings': audit in the British University system ↗
- [1] Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law ↗
- [3] SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs ↗
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