FrontierMath Was Funded by OpenAI

by s-mackeon 1/19/25, 8:50 AMwith 4 comments
by shaldengekion 1/19/25, 9:14 AM

The title here buries the lede, IMO. Quoting from Epoch AI in the thread:

> We were restricted from disclosing the partnership until around the time o3 launched [...] Our contract specifically prevented us from disclosing information about the funding source and the fact that OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset.

> Regarding training usage: We acknowledge that OpenAI does have access to a large fraction of FrontierMath problems and solutions, with the exception of a unseen-by-OpenAI hold-out set that enables us to independently verify model capabilities. However, we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training.

Here, you can read "large fraction" as meaning "everything but the holdout set" - and my understanding is, they haven't disclosed performance on the holdout set.

by belteron 1/19/25, 1:13 PM

"The mathematicians creating the problems for FrontierMath were not (actively) communicated to about funding from OpenAI."