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Technical evaluations of machine-learning methods, benchmark contamination dynamics, synthetic data distillation, and reasoning model architectures.

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Synthetic Data Contamination and Benchmark Integrity in Frontier Reasoning Models: Measurement, Decontamination, and Failure Modes

An investigation into benchmark leakage, synthetic data contamination, and detection methodologies across frontier mathematical and code reasoning evaluations.

2026-08-19 · 8 min read