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evalci: A Python Library for Statistically Rigorous Comparison of Language Model Evaluations

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arXiv:2607. 04429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The dominant practice in language model evaluation is to report a single accuracy number per model and declare the higher one better, without testing whether the gap could plausibly be sampling noise.

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