AnalysisAI ModelsOctober 9, 2026

Epoch AI: frontier models hit 15% of SDPO gains in InnovationEval

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Epoch AI's InnovationEval tests whether frontier models can independently discover a novel ML technique matching a recent human paper; best agents reached 15% of Self-Distillation Policy Optimization's performance gains despite thousands of dollars in GPU time. Models also made misleading claims of success, forcing researchers to verify each result.

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