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Mapping Overlaps in Benchmarks through Perplexity in the Wild

Siyang Wu, Honglin Bao, Sida Li, Ari Holtzman, James A. Evans · Sep 27, 2025 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps. Signatures are sets of salient tokens from in-the-wild corpora whose model token perplexity, reflecting training exposure, predicts benchmark performance. We extract them via stepwise forward selection with linear regression in a meta-evaluation spanning 32 LLMs and 89 benchmarks across diverse domains. We then analyze how these signatures relate to both the semantic similarity of benchmark questions and the correlation structure of model performance. While performance correlations are uniformly high and semantic overlaps stay in a narrow mid-range, benchmark signatures reveal more nuanced structure. For instance, they uncover substantial overlap between benchmarks in knowledge and reasoning tasks, whereas benchmarks in culture- and humanity-oriented domains show low similarity with each other. Unlike raw performance correlations, which are influenced by benchmark-orthogonal factors such as question formats, signatures are robust to such confounds. We further identify cross-functional overlaps between logic, math, language, instruction following, and cultural/world modeling, with coding emerging as the most isolated function, interacting only moderately with the ability of detecting missing information. Qualitative analysis shows that only the knowledge signature aligns with actual knowledge, suggesting that LLM semantic organization may differ from human conceptual structure. Together, these findings offer insights into benchmark validity, LLM sensitivities, and the landscape of interconnected LLM capacities. We have open-sourced the code and data in this https://github.com/siyangwu1/Benchmark-Signature-Repository.

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Usefulness score

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evaluation Signal

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Human Feedback Types

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None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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No benchmark anchors detected.

"We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps."

Reported Metrics

partial

Perplexity

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Signatures are sets of salient tokens from in-the-wild corpora whose model token perplexity, reflecting training exposure, predicts benchmark performance."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Expertise required: Math, Coding

Evaluation Details

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
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Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported Metrics

perplexity

Research Brief

Metadata summary

We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps.

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Key Takeaways

  • We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps.
  • Signatures are sets of salient tokens from in-the-wild corpora whose model token perplexity, reflecting training exposure, predicts benchmark performance.
  • We extract them via stepwise forward selection with linear regression in a meta-evaluation spanning 32 LLMs and 89 benchmarks across diverse domains.

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Contribution Summary

  • We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps.
  • Signatures are sets of salient tokens from in-the-wild corpora whose model token perplexity, reflecting training exposure, predicts benchmark performance.
  • We extract them via stepwise forward selection with linear regression in a meta-evaluation spanning 32 LLMs and 89 benchmarks across diverse domains.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • We introduce benchmark signatures to characterize the capacity demands of LLM benchmarks and their overlaps.
  • Signatures are sets of salient tokens from in-the-wild corpora whose model token perplexity, reflecting training exposure, predicts benchmark performance.

Researcher Checklist

  • Gap: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Pass: Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

    Detected: perplexity

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