Yixiang Zhang

Benchmarking Post-Training Under Constrained Compute: Protocols for Question Generation, Variance-Controlled Evaluation, and Judge Auditing

Preprint of the methods paper. Companion findings paper: "What Determines the Direction of Post-Training Gains? A Preregistered Multi-Scale Study of Method, Scale, and Base-Model Identity" (Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23409394). LLM-as-a-judge scoring is increasingly the default...