Can a double-blind test eliminate benchmark contamination?
It can reduce opportunities for a lab to see specific prompts in advance, but no single setup rules out every path by which related material might enter training or evaluation. Test designers still need to examine provenance, task freshness, access controls, leakage risks, and whether results generalize beyond the pilot.
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Can AI Labs Sit an Exam Without Seeing the Questions?A confidential-computing pilot separates model weights from evaluation prompts, while leaving the harder question of test validity open.
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