VERSIONS.md

# Dataset versions and what they back

Ties a released dataset version to the experiments it produced and the paper
tables those experiments back, so a reader can go from a number in the PDF to
the exact prompts a model saw.

## anchorbench-v2.0-core

| | |
|---|---|
| Git tag | `colm2026-camera-ready` |
| Suites | external, history, icl, rag, tool (360 items each) + external_uncertain |
| Released files | `datasets/hf_release/*.jsonl` (14,400 rows) |
| Hub | [Yiderigun/LLM_anchoring](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Yiderigun/LLM_anchoring) (currently private) |
| Checksums | `datasets/anchorbench_core_checksums.sha256` |
| Raw generations | [tarballs on Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Befi102mkvXQomB1zwCPS_m0_4OlKH2M?usp=sharing) |
| HF revision | `85b6d4a26092868281f45b745fd1f5ccf02dd91b` (2026-08-05) |

Generated with, for every suite:

```bash
python -m anchorbench.data.generate --suite <suite> --size core --seed 42
```

`external_uncertain` is derived rather than generated: the runner re-renders
each external item at k = 1, 2, 3 visible ratings
(`anchorbench.runners.rebuttal_uncertain.build_uncertain_promptviews`).

### Which results came from it

| Results directory | Models | Backs |
|---|---|---|
| `results/full_benchmark/` | 10 open-weight | Table 1, Figs 3-4, most appendix tables |
| `results/api_benchmark/` | 4 frontier API | Table 1, Figs 3-4 |
| `results/rebuttal/uncertain/` | 4 open-weight | **Table 2** (main paper) |
| `results/rebuttal/**` | varies | the 13 `\input`-ed appendix tables |

### Provenance chain

```
datasets/anchorbench_<suite>_core/   generated, seed 42, committed
  -> results/<experiment>/           raw generations, Drive + CHECKSUMS.sha256
    -> outputs/tables/*.tex          regenerated by `anchorbench tables`
      -> COLM_camera_ready/          the PDF, at tag colm2026-camera-ready
```

Every link is checked by a test: `tests/test_dataset_regeneration.py` for the
first, `tests/test_golden_artifacts.py` for the third, and
`anchorbench verify` for the last.

## Reproducibility notes carried by this version

- **History `anchor_value` is `null` by design.** History's anchor is the
  model's own Stage-1 answer, so it is a property of the (item, model) run,
  not of the item. The same item records 80 for Qwen-7B and 81 for Llama-8B.
  Read the realised value from the released results.
- **`split` is `test` everywhere.** AnchorBench is eval-only; there is no
  train or validation portion. The internal itemspecs carry
  `tags.split = "core"`, which is a *size* label and is deliberately not
  propagated, since the Hub would render it as a data split.
- **Three prompts repeat inside `uncertain_p1_control`** (6 of 360 items,
  1.7%) with different gold answers. This is the design, not a collision: at
  k=1 the prompt shows a single visible rating while gold remains the mean of
  all five, so two items sharing a first rating produce identical prompts with
  different answers. That irreducible uncertainty is what the k=1 condition
  exists to create.
- **vLLM is not bitwise reproducible at temperature 0.** Re-running a cell can
  move a metric by a few hundredths; see
  `results/rebuttal/cot_replication/README.md`.

## Superseded Hub revisions

`fbbadc1ed373` (2026-07-10) — the first upload. Its prompts were correct and
byte-identical to the evaluated ones, but it carried only five fields
(`item_id`, `condition`, `prompt_text`, `y_star`, `anchor_value`), which is
not enough to reproduce the paper's own breakdowns: Figure 3 needs `offset`
and `tab:difficulty` needs `difficulty`. It also published
`anchorbench_tool_read_core/`, a suite removed in v2.0 that appears nowhere
in the paper, and omitted `external_uncertain`, which backs Table 2 in the
main paper. Replaced in one commit by `548dff842706`, then `85b6d4a26092` corrected the
homepage URL. The old files remain in the Hub's git history.