Epoch AI posts a clarification on how FrontierMath was made and is used

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Posted a clarification on its relationship with OpenAI over how FrontierMath was made and used — OpenAI commissioned 300 problems and holds access to the problems and solutions (except a 50-problem holdout). Admitted it should have told contributors

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Primary material on the problem of benchmark independence

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Officialepoch.aihttps://epoch.ai/latest/openai-and-frontiermath

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