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How Strong Is the Evidence for the Artificial Hivemind? Reevaluating Evidence for the Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models
Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Joshua Kazdan +2
Recent research argues that language models exhibit pronounced homogeneity in open-ended generation, framing such behavior as an Artificial Hivemind that poses a long-term threat t…
A Few Pages of Markdown: Committed AI Configuration and Lower Quality Cost after Coding-Agent Adoption
Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Shyam Agarwal, Pavel Azaletskiy +5
Coding agents increase development velocity but also technical debt. Prior work reports only average effects across adopters, hiding wide differences between teams. We introduce RA…
Internal Data Repetition Destroys Language Models
Jessica Chudnovsky, Joshua Kazdan, Noam Levi +6
Language models are running out of high-quality training data, and even aggressively deduplicated corpora retain some amount of repetition. Earlier controlled studies predated Chin…
Item Response Scaling Laws: A Measurement Theory Approach for Efficient and Generalizable Neural Scaling Estimation
Sang Truong, Yuheng Tu, Rylan Schaeffer +1
Scaling laws provide a fundamental framework for understanding the performance of Language Models (LMs), yet deriving them requires prohibitively expensive evaluations across thous…
Consensus is Not Verification: Why Crowd Wisdom Strategies Fail for LLM Truthfulness
Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Joshua Kazdan, Jessica Chudnovsky +4
Pass@k and other methods of scaling inference compute can improve language model performance in domains with external verifiers, including mathematics and code, where incorrect can…
Scale Dependent Data Duplication
Joshua Kazdan, Noam Levi, Rylan Schaeffer +6
Data duplication during pretraining can degrade generalization and lead to memorization, motivating aggressive deduplication pipelines. However, at web scale, it is unclear what co…
Quantifying the Effect of Test Set Contamination on Generative Evaluations
Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, Baber Abbasi +8
As frontier AI systems are pretrained on web-scale data, test set contamination has become a critical concern for accurately assessing their capabilities. While research has thorou…