Evaluation & Reliability

Data Contamination

Evaluation material, or sufficiently revealing versions of it, enters data used to train or develop the system. A later score can then partly reflect exposure to the test rather than generalization. Contamination is often difficult to establish from a score alone.

Also called: Benchmark contamination

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