---
title: "Synthetic Benchmark Drift in LLM Evaluation Harnesses"
authors: "Rao, Mira; Chen, Ellis"
year: "2025"
abstract: "A synthetic study of how benchmark assumptions drift when model interfaces and prompt templates change."
doi: ""
topic_cluster: "llm-evaluation-harness"
status: "reading"
ingested_at: "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z"
tags: ["evaluation", "benchmarks"]
labels: ["core", "methods"]
zotero-key: "SAMPLE01"
---
# Synthetic Benchmark Drift in LLM Evaluation Harnesses

This synthetic note describes benchmark drift as an operational risk in repeated LLM evaluations.
