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A teammate cites a benchmark’s leaderboard number as pr...

Leaderboard numbers can be misleading if the evaluation setup does not reflect real-world retrieval challenges. If the benchmark provides the answer directly to the model, it is not testing the reranker’s ability to retrieve information from a larger corpus. Always validate the evaluation methodology before accepting performance claims.

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