[ SLANG ][ AI ][ NOUN ]
Deliberately obtaining a benchmark's actual test questions and answers ahead of time — through leaks, scraping, or insider access — specifically to train or tune a model on them, distinct from benchmark contamination happening by accident through data scale.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"This wasn't accidental contamination, investigators found evidence of actual benchmark theft, someone had the answer key."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named directly by AI researchers to distinguish this deliberate acquisition of test material from the more passive, accidental version of the same underlying problem, borrowing 'theft' to mark the intent.
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Related To:Benchmark ContaminationEval Cheating
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