CLEAN–EVAL: Clean Evaluation on Contaminated Large Language Models (2024.findings-naacl)
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Wenhong Zhu, Hongkun Hao, Zhiwei He, Yun-Ze Song, Jiao Yueyang, Yumeng Zhang, Hanxu Hu, Yiran Wei, Rui Wang, Hongyuan Lu
| Challenge: | Existing methods to evaluate large language models are prone to data contamination. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which parses contaminated data and back-translates it into a candidate set. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces data contamination and evaluates the LLMs more cleanly. |
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