arXiv Machine Learning

How Benchmark Prediction from Fewer Data Misses the Mark

arXiv:2506. 07673v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) evaluation is increasingly costly, prompting interest in methods that speed up evaluation by shrinking benchmark datasets.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 29

Benchmarking on Tasks That Matter: Dataset Selection for Preserving Model Rankings

arXiv:2606. 27997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks of machine learning models often include many datasets, making evaluation expensive.

By Rostislav Gusev, Alexey Zaytsev

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Uncovering Competency Gaps in Large Language Models and Their Benchmarks

arXiv:2512. 20638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evaluation of large language models relies heavily on standardized benchmarks.

By Maty Bohacek, Nino Scherrer, Nicholas Dufour, Thomas Leung, Christoph Bregler, Stephanie C. Y. Chan

llms benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 4

Learning to Evaluate: Cost-Effective Model Evaluation on Unlabeled Data with Meta-Learning

arXiv:2605. 23595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of machine learning has led to an unprecedented expansion of model ecosystems, making it increasingly difficult to assess the reliability of newly released models on unseen and unlabeled data.

By Trinh Pham, Viet Huynh, Hongzhi Yin, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thanh Tam Nguyen

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

CollabEval: Statistically Efficient Collaborative Model Evaluation via Matrix Completion

arXiv:2607. 05046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating generative AI models is a routine, but resource-intensive, process that is conducted over and over again during the course of model development.

By Adam Fisch, Daniel Deutsch, Joshua Maynez, Alekh Agarwal, Jonathan Berant, William Cohen, Amir Globerson, Jacob Eisenstein

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arXiv AI

Jul 3

PACE: A Proxy for Agentic Capability Evaluation

arXiv:2607. 02032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents on benchmarks like SWE-Bench and GAIA can be expensive, time-consuming, and requires complex infrastructure.

By Yueqi Song, Lintang Sutawika, Jiarui Liu, Lindia Tjuatja, Jiayi Geng, Yunze Xiao, Daniel Lee, Aditya Bharat Soni, Vincent Lo, Xiang Yue, Graham Neubig

llms agents benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

BLISS: A Lightweight Bilevel Influence Scoring Method for Data Selection in Language Model Pretraining

arXiv:2510. 06048v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective data selection is essential for pretraining large language models (LLMs), enhancing efficiency and improving generalization to downstream tasks.

By Jie Hao, Rui Yu, Wei Zhang, Huixia Wang, Jie Xu, Mingrui Liu

llms benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 3

Benchmarks Are Not Monolithic: Sample-Level Auditing and Orchestration for LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2607. 28801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark datasets are central to evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs), yet they are typically conceived as monolithic tasks, obscuring substantial variation in the demands of individual samples.

By Philipp D. Siedler, Jordan Sassoon

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Cutting LLM Evaluation Costs with SySRs: A Bandit Algorithm that Provably Exploits Model Similarity

arXiv:2606. 07726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models are typically benchmarked by evaluating every model on every test query.

By Zifan Lyu, Chahine Nejma, Tobias Wegel, Fanny Yang, Florian E. Dorner

llms reinforcement-learning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 30

Aligning Language Model Benchmarks with Pairwise Preferences

arXiv:2602. 02898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language model benchmarks are pervasive and computationally-efficient proxies for real-world performance.

By Marco Gutierrez, Xinyi Leng, Hannah Cyberey, Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Ahmed Alaa, Thomas Hartvigsen

llms benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jul 14

Coresets Before Score Sets: Evaluation-Unsupervised Prompt Subset Selection for LLM Benchmarks

arXiv:2607. 09739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study LLM benchmark coreset selection: selecting a small subset of prompts over multiple benchmarks whose induced model scores and rankings approximate those obtained from the full benchmark suite.

By Jihan Yao, Gantavya Bhatt, Arnav Das, Peter Jin, Ke Bao, Qiaolin Yu, Khushi Bhardwaj, Chang Su, Jialei Wang, Yikai Zhu, Sugam Devare, Damon Mosk-Aoyama, Zhen Dong, Venkat Krishna Srinivasan, Yineng Zhang, Oleksii Kuchaiev, Jiantao Jiao, Banghua Zhu, Jeff Bilmes

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

HERO: Improving the Reliability and Sensitivity of Generative Model Evaluation Using Historical Data

arXiv:2606. 29784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable generative AI models critically rely on expert human annotations to evaluate output quality, yet these "gold" labels are expensive to collect and limited in quantity.

By Xinrui Ruan, Zhenyu Zhao, Waverly Wei, Yueshan Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Sui Huang, Jingshen Wang

benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jun 26

The Capability Frontier: Benchmarks Miss 82% of Model Performance

arXiv:2606. 26836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing benchmarks typically report accuracy for a single model on a single run.

By Bradley Fowler, Ryan Smith, Daniel Thi Graviet, William Myers, Joshua Greaves, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Ant\'ia Garc\'ia, Philip Quirke, Amirali Abdullah, Fazl Barez, Shriyash Kaustubh Upadhyay

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