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Phantom Gains: Auditing Self-Improvement Against a Measured Null
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers identified seven measurement failures in language model self-improvement audits, showing reported gains often vanish when compared against proper frozen controls.
- Why it matters
- Engineers evaluating self-training or fine-tuning improvements should care, especially when tracking problem-level gains and losses across model iterations.
- Watch out
- Standard practices like single greedy decoding and naive threshold repairs produce false positives on untrained models; proper null baselines from existing replicates are essential.
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