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When Is Benchmark Contamination Detectable? Information Limits and Power-Calibrated Audits

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arXiv:2608. 07914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral contamination detectors can return "no evidence" either because a benchmark is clean or because the audit has little power.

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Fidelity Is Not Enough: Dispatch-Level Instrumentation for Agentic Datasheet Extraction

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