Symbol f

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Treat a published benchmark score as the output of a function of two arguments: the weights being scored, and the procedure used to score them. Here $\theta$ denotes the model’s parameters and H denotes everything about the evaluation procedure that is not the model itself — the exact prompt template, the number of few-shot examples, whether a chat template is applied, how the model’s free-text output is parsed into a scored answer, and the decoding configuration. A vendor publishes one value of s . An independent lab computing its own s' is implicitly testing whether f($\theta$, H) = f($\theta$', H') , and a mismatch could in principle come from either argument.

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