A formal construction and synthetic experiment demonstrate that proxy rankings of pretraining datasets can reverse OOD accuracy rankings.
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A Controlled Counterexample to Strong Proxy-Based Explanations of OOD Performance: in a Fixed Pretraining-and-Probing Setup
A formal construction and synthetic experiment demonstrate that proxy rankings of pretraining datasets can reverse OOD accuracy rankings.