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Intelligence Verdict
Testing and safety

Benchmark

A fixed test, such as a set of exam questions or coding tasks, used to score and compare AI models. Scores can mislead if models were trained on the answers or the test is too easy.

The wording it rests on

In their own words.

Our plain version above is ours. This is the official or expert wording we based it on.

“LLM benchmarks are standardized frameworks for assessing the performance of large language models (LLMs).”
IBM Think, What are LLM benchmarks?, Jan 29, 2024