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3 open-access journal articles on benchmark design, published in 2026 in Life of Research. Every record is free to read and download, with a permanent link and a ready-made citation.
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A language model that declines to answer is scored the same way whether the reason is that the question has several readings and it picked the wrong one, or that the question has one reading and the model does not know the fact it names. AbstentionBench (Kirichenko et al., 2025) makes the…
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Open-world object detection asks a detector to put boxes on objects whose classes it was never trained on, and the field's headline number for that ability is unknown recall. This paper reconstructs where that metric came from and what it can certify. The founding paper of the task did not report…
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The literature on how language models behave when retrieved context contradicts parametric memory contains a flat contradiction, and neither of its two surveys resolves it. One body of results reports over-reliance on memorised information; another reports that models are highly receptive to…