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training data contamination

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When items from a test or benchmark set end up in a model's training data, so the model has effectively seen the exam in advance and its scores overstate what it can really do. Often discussed as benchmark leakage.

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""Its test score jumped, but training data contamination could explain why.""

LORE & ORIGIN

A paper on benchmark leakage submitted to arXiv on April 29, 2024 describes the problem as a benchmark example, from the training or test split, appearing in a model's pretraining data. Wikipedia's data leakage article covers the related older machine-learning idea and methods such as Min-K% for detecting pretraining data.

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2020s (LLM evaluation discussion; dated paper April 2024)
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