Distinguishing Performance From Competence in Evaluations of Humanlike Abstract Reasoning

arXiv:2510.02125 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2025-10-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-16

Terminology

• Abstraction — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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