Mo Abu Baker

New frontier models have developed the capability of eval-awareness, putting the utility of evals at risk. But what do people really mean when they say “a model is eval-aware?” In this post, I try to disentangle this statement and offer my views on the different concepts it entails. When people...

TL;DR For our capstone project in ARENA 6.0 (Sep 2025), we tried to create a model organism of encoded reasoning from Qwen3-4B using RL. Specifically, we tried to make the model solve math questions from the GSM8K using a chain-of-thought that kept its accuracy but led other judge models to...