Equation 12 · Part 1 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Frontier AI Model Comparisons
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…across benchmarks by construction — a multiple-choice knowledge test and a pairwise human-preference vote are not measuring the same projection of — there is no aggregation operator that turns a vector of values into a single number without an additional, unverified assumption about how the functions relate to one another. HELM’s response is to refuse the aggregation and publish the matrix. Epoch’s response is to aggregate anyway, for a stated and narrower purpose. Neither is…
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Sources cited in the article section
- [7] Holistic Evaluation of Language Models ↗
- [11] AI Capabilities and Benchmarking Hub ↗
- [6] Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks ↗
- [12] Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models ↗
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