Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation

As of 12 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 34 of 34 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2412.15255.

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation GPT-4 Technical Report

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation PaLM 2 Technical Report

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This paper cites Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference.

Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Length-Controlled AlpacaEval: A Simple Way to Debias Automatic Evaluators

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This paper cites Time Travel in LLMs: Tracing Data Contamination in Large Language Models.

Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Time Travel in LLMs: Tracing Data Contamination in Large Language Models

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation DistiLLM: Towards Streamlined Distillation for Large Language Models

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation From Crowdsourced Data to High-Quality Benchmarks: Arena-Hard and BenchBuilder Pipeline

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation LLM360: Towards Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation TRUCE: Private Benchmarking to Prevent Contamination and Improve Comparative Evaluation of LLMs

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Geras, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ozlem Aslan, Shengjie Wang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Matthai Philipose, Matt Richardson, and Rich Caruana

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Rethinking Benchmark and Contamination for Language Models with Rephrased Samples

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Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Cheating Automatic LLM Benchmarks: Null Models Achieve High Win Rates

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Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Trees cites this paper.

Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Trees Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation

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Distilling Tabular Foundation Models for Structured Health Data Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation

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