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Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour

If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip retrieval entirely. How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key?

Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour

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How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key?

If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip retrieval entirely.

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How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip retrieval entirely. A similar problem arises when the answers are already encoded in […]

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