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# Your Benchmark Is an Empirical Measure Over Difficulty

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**Published:** 2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

A benchmark induces an empirical measure over difficulty, and this measure\-based view identifies two failure modes: measure mismatch and coverage gaps\. The work proposes two diagnostic metrics with theoretical guarantees and analyzes 25 benchmarks across 7 domains, finding that many benchmarks overweight certain difficulty regions and leave portions of the difficulty axis uncovered\.

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