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leaderboard illusion: a standalone construct

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distortion of public model leaderboards by undisclosed private testing, selective score reporting and unequal data access among providers.

In machine learning, leaderboard illusion refers to distortion of public model leaderboards by undisclosed private testing, selective score reporting and unequal data access among providers. This meaning comes from Singh (2025) in arXiv.[1]

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Singh, S., Nan, Y., Wang, A., D'Souza, D., Kapoor, S., Üstün, A., Koyejo, S., Deng, Y., Longpre, S., Smith, N. A., Ermis, B., Fadaee, M., & Hooker, S. (2025). The Leaderboard Illusion. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2504.20879

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