arXiv:2605.24818v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The literature on test set contamination largely focuses on detection, but the correction of contaminated test scores is underexplored. Our c...
By Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Jerry Li, Ameya Godbole, Robin Jia
The paper investigates how benchmark contamination—leakage of test items into training data—affects large language model (LLM) leaderboards. By comparing original test items with semantically equivalent paraphrases, the authors measure contamination as a violation of anchor-item invariance and find that it inflates absolute scores but rarely changes model rankings. Across 47 public models and 74 finetuned models on four benchmarks, the rank correlation between standard and paraphrase-controlled leaderboards is 0.997, with only a handful of cases showing differential contamination that could alter rankings.
By Xingyao Xiao (Stanford University), Yihong Cheng (City University of Macau)
arXiv:2606. 31208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large tabular models (LTMs), i.
By Francesco Capano, Jonas B\"ohler
The paper addresses the problem of evaluating deployed machine learning models when their input data distribution shifts, which can arise from changes in the underlying population or from data integrity issues in the feature pipeline. It proposes an online model‑testing framework that reproduces the detected shift on a controlled baseline with known labels, distinguishing between the two mechanisms of shift to estimate current performance and potential gains from repairing data integrity problems. Experiments on real‑world datasets with simulated faults demonstrate that separating the two sources of shift generally improves performance estimates, and a churn‑prediction case study shows how these tests can guide monitoring and repair prioritization.
By Joran Leest, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Claudia Raibulet, Patricia Lago
arXiv:2609.37687v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Active test-time adaptation (ATTA) improves robustness under distribution shift by updating a deployed model during inference while selectively queryin...
By Muhammad Huzaifa, Lea Sch\"onherr, Thorsten Eisenhofer
arXiv:2610.16152v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Although post-training significantly enhances model performance, the use of massive undisclosed data raises concerns about benchmark contamination an...
By Hengxiang Zhang, Junxian Liu, Hongxin Wei