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Scaling curves can be certified with far fewer sampled answers
A variance-aware audit provides simultaneous confidence bands across test-time budgets while reducing the number of generated answers.
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Sohail (Neel) · Sarkar · Shakuntala Baichoo
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Sarkar and Baichoo study how to certify accuracy curves for methods that sample multiple model answers and select the one receiving the highest verifier score.
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From PMCC AI Lab and 2 others
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A paired audit achieves nearly minimax cost for certifying best-of-k scaling curves with simultaneous confidence bands.
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