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Avoid common pitfalls when benchmarking LLMs.

Avoid common pitfalls when benchmarking LLMs. Avoid common pitfalls when benchmarking LLMs.

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paperCan LLMs Judge Better Than They Generate? Evaluating Task Asymmetry, Mechanistic Interpretability and Transferability for In-Context QA paperEvil Spectra: How Optimisers can Amplify or Suppress Emergent Misalignment paperSurrogate Fidelity: When Can Open LLMs Explain Closed Ones?paperWhen LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors paperClinician-Level Agreement Without Clinical Caution: LLM Evaluator Limits in Medical AI Benchmarking paperLACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning paperRating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of LLMs Reflect Expectations More Than Performance paperLLM-as-a-Verifier: A General-Purpose Verification Framework paperSuper Weights in LLMs and the Failure of Selective Training paperTwo Axes of LLM Abstention: Answer Correctness and Question Answerability paperWhen the Judge Changes, So Does the Measurement: Auditing LLM-as-Judge Reliability paperLLM Judges Can Be Too Generous When There Is No Reference Answer paperHindcast: Replaying Prediction Markets to Evaluate LLM Forecasters paperCRAFT: Clustering Rubrics to Diagnose Weak LLM Capabilities and Generate Targeted Fine-Tuning Data paperVEHBench: A Stage-Local Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Vibration Energy Harvester Design paperJudge-dependent safety gains and model-specific helpfulness costs of evidence-sufficiency prompting in clinical LLMs

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