https://sparsenotes.com/tags/benchmarks/ Recent content in benchmarks on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/papers/hinted-scaling-laws/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/papers/hinted-scaling-laws/ Stanford's fix for downstream scaling laws that break when small models score zero: show the model part of a reference solution, measure how accuracy rises with the hint, and fit one law over scale and hint level. Fit on models up to 10^20 FLOPs, it forecasts a 10^23 FLOP model's GSM8K score within 3 points, and it cuts median forecast error from 21 points to 4.3.