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Benchmark contamination means that the questions or answers of a public evaluation set have entered the model's training corpus in some form, so that the model's performance on the evaluation cannot reflect its true generalization ability; as training data scale grows, the time window from an evaluation question's release to its being memorized becomes ever shorter.
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11/3/2026
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Old Conclusions Meet New Models: Insights from LLM Replication Research
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