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Home/Glossary/Pass@k
AI Glossary Term

What does “Pass@k” mean?

Definition

A code-evaluation metric measuring the chance that at least one of k generated samples passes the tests.

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A benchmark of Python programming problems used to measure code-generation correctness via unit tests.
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A structured way for one software system to send requests to and receive responses from another system.
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Methods that transfer a model trained in one domain to perform better in another domain.

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Dense Passage Retrieval

See also

LLM-as-JudgeMMLUBi-EncoderGSM8KHybrid SearchFactualityRerankerCitations
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