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The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2026

Abbildungen

50 b/w illus.

Verlag

University Presses

Seitenzahl

376

Maße (L/B)

25.4/17.8 cm

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-28429-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2026

Abbildungen

50 b/w illus.

Verlag

University Presses

Seitenzahl

376

Maße (L/B)

25.4/17.8 cm

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-691-28429-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks


    • Figures

    • Preface

      • Overview

      • Who is this book for?

      • Acknowledgments


    • Prologue

    • 1 Introduction From its roots, machine learning embraces the anything goes principle of scientific discovery. Machine learning benchmarks become the iron rule to tame the anything goes. But after decades of service, a crisis grips the benchmarking enterprise.

      • The iron rule

      • The ImageNet era

      • The LLM era


    • 2 Populations and predictions The mathematical foundations of machine learning follow the astronomical conception of society: Populations are probability distributions. Optimal predictors minimize loss functions on a probability distribution.

      • 2.1 Prediction

      • 2.2 Risk minimization

      • 2.3 Errors and metrics

      • 2.4 Model training

      • Notes


    • 3 Detecting differences A single statistical problem illuminates much of the mathematical tools necessary for benchmarking. The key lesson is that sample requirements grow quadratically in the inverse of the difference we try to detect.

      • 3.1 Model comparisons from samples

      • 3.2 Coin tossing

      • 3.3 Distances between distributions

      • 3.4 Concentration inequalities

      • 3.5 From coin tosses back to benchmarking

      • Notes


    • 4 Holdout method The holdout method separates training and testing data, anything goes on the training data, iron rule on the testing data. Not all uses of the holdout method are alike.

      • 4.1 Testing on the training set

      • 4.2 Generalization

      • 4.3 The holdout method

      • 4.4 What’s the holdout method for?

      • 4.5 Variants of the holdout method

      • 4.6 Error bars and confidence intervals

      • Notes


    • 5 Test set reuse Statistics prescribes the iron vault for test data. But the empirical reality of machine learning benchmarks couldn’t be further from the prescription. Repeated adaptive testing brings theoretical risks and practical power.

      • 5.1 Test set reuse in machine learning benchmarks

      • 5.2 Guarantees of the holdout method under adaptivity

      • 5.3 Alternatives to the holdout method

      • 5.4 Freedman’s paradox

      • Notes


    • 6 Scientific crisis A replication crisis has long gripped the empirical sciences. Statistical practice is vulnerable for fundamental reasons. Under competition, researcher degrees of freedom outwit statistical measurement.

      • 6.1 The replication crisis in the statistical sciences

      • 6.2 Propensity of false positives

      • 6.3 Perspectives on the crisis

      • 6.4 Goodhart’s law

      • Notes


    • 7 Replication in machine learning The preconditions for crisis exist in machine learning, too. And yet, the situation in machine learning is different. While accuracy numbers don’t replicate, model rankings replicate to a significant degree.

      • 7.1 The preconditions for crisis

      • 7.2 Replication in machine learning

      • 7.3 The trouble with absolute benchmark numbers

      • 7.4 Model rankings in the ImageNet era

      • 7.5 Measurement versus ranking

      • Notes


    • 8 Forces against crisis If machine learning thwarted scientific crisis, the question is why. Some powerful explanations emerge. Key are the social norms and practices of the community rather than statistical methodology.

      • 8.1 Beating the previous best

      • 8.2 Biases and heuristics

      • 8.3 Rip Van Winkle’s replication problem

      • 8.4 The touch of the Blenheim Spaniel

      • 8.5 Code and collaboration

      • 8.6 Kaggle versus science

      • 8.7 From benchmarking to scientific progress

      • Notes


    • 9 Labeling and annotation If the holdout method is the greatest unsung hero, data annotation is not far behind. But conventional wisdom clouds the subtle role that annotation plays for benchmarking.

      • 9.1 Annotator errors and annotator agreement

      • 9.2 Labeling as prediction

      • 9.3 Effects of label errors on model comparisons

      • 9.4 Quantity versus quality

      • 9.5 Resilience of rankings to label errors

      • Notes


    • 10 Generative models The ImageNet era ends as attention shifts to powerful generative models trained on the internet. The new era also marks a turning point for machine learning benchmarks.

      • 10.1 Language models

      • 10.2 Scaling

      • 10.3 Early NLP benchmarks

      • 10.4 CLIP and a final look at ImageNet

      • Notes


    • 11 Evaluating language models After training, alignment fits models to human preferences. Part of the post-training pipeline, alignment transforms evaluation results. How post-training makes such a difference brings new challenges for benchmarking.

      • 11.1 Post-training methods

      • 11.2 Generative evaluation

      • 11.3 Confounded evaluations

      • 11.4 Model comparisons and rankings

      • Notes


    • 12 The problem of aggregation Multi-task benchmarks promise a holistic evaluation of complex models. An analogy with voting systems reveals limitations in multi-task benchmarks. Greater diversity comes at the cost of greater sensitivity to artifacts.

      • 12.1 Multi-task benchmarks

      • 12.2 Problems of aggregation and voting systems

      • 12.3 Ranked voting

      • 12.4 Rated voting

      • 12.5 Empirical trade-offs in multi-task benchmarks

      • 12.6 Latent factors in benchmark performance

      • Notes


    • 13 When the model moves the data Models deployed at scale always influence future data, a phenomenon called performativity. Performativity breaks evaluation and creates the problem of data feedback loops. Dynamic benchmarks try to make a virtue out of it.

      • 13.1 Morgenstern’s prophecy about prediction

      • 13.2 Performative prediction

      • 13.3 Repeated risk minimization

      • 13.4 Data feedback loops

      • 13.5 Dynamic benchmarks

      • Notes


    • 14 Evaluation at the frontier As models gain in capabilities, human supervision increasingly becomes a bottleneck. The hope is that models will supervise and evaluate each other, but there are limits to automatic evaluation.

      • 14.1 LLM as a judge

      • 14.2 Debiasing evaluations

      • 14.3 Restricted model evaluation strategies

      • 14.4 Evaluation in the real world

      • Notes


    • 15 Epilogue

    • References

    • Index