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  NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models
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  Join us in building benchmarks that capture early-stage reasoning & Scientific Knowledge in LLMs!
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  🔗 Visit the official competition website at
  <a href="https://e2lmc.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">
    e2lmc.github.io
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  🔗 Read more about the competition in 
  <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07731" target="_blank" style="color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">
    the paper proposal
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