Stress-Testing Efficient Responsible-AI Evaluation: When Compute Savings Change Benchmark Conclusions

arXiv:2608.31108 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-09-04

Code: https://github.com/VectorInstitute/sustainable-rai-evaluation

Project page: https://vectorinstitute

Terminology

• Benchmark — 69× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 43× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Quantization — 10× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Robustness — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Carbontracker: Tracking and Predicting the Carbon Footprint of Training Deep Learning Models
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• BBQ-V: Benchmarking Visual Stereotype Bias in Large Multimodal Models
• Position: Sustainable Open-Source AI Requires Tracking the Cumulative Footprint of Derivatives
• Gemma 4 Technical Report

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