AI Experiments & Benchmarks Navigator
What evidence would show that an AI approach works for my intended use?
Choose the branch that matches your decision, then choose the relevant article. The destinations are alternatives and references, not a mandatory reading sequence.
Start: Choose Your Decision
- Are you measuring a capability or reproducing a published experiment? → Select a benchmark or test environment
- Can the expected result be defined before testing? → Design a validation experiment
- Under what conditions does the system stop working? → Diagnose limitations and failure modes
- Could manipulation or corrupted evidence change the conclusion? → Test security and evidence integrity
If you are unsure, begin with the first branch and state the outcome you need before selecting a method or tool.
Select a benchmark or test environment
Question: Are you measuring a capability or reproducing a published experiment?
Choose a benchmark whose tasks match the intended claim. Inspect embodied-agent and cognitive test environments as testbeds, not proof of broad intelligence.
Article destinations:
Checkpoint: Describe what the test measures, what it omits and how contamination could affect it.
- Yes, I can do this: Compare an alternative, test the choice, or continue through the related trees below.
- Not yet: Revisit the relevant explanation or choose a simpler baseline.
- Choose another decision →
Design a validation experiment
Question: Can the expected result be defined before testing?
For prediction, separate development and evaluation data. For time-dependent decisions, use time-respecting validation or backtesting.
Article destinations:
Checkpoint: Write the success criterion and baseline before observing results.
- Yes, I can do this: Compare an alternative, test the choice, or continue through the related trees below.
- Not yet: Revisit the relevant explanation or choose a simpler baseline.
- Choose another decision →
Diagnose limitations and failure modes
Question: Under what conditions does the system stop working?
Separate data, model, environment and operational failures. Test unfamiliar conditions and compare errors across meaningful subgroups.
Article destinations:
Checkpoint: Record the failing condition and a reproducible example.
- Yes, I can do this: Compare an alternative, test the choice, or continue through the related trees below.
- Not yet: Revisit the relevant explanation or choose a simpler baseline.
- Choose another decision →
Test security and evidence integrity
Question: Could manipulation or corrupted evidence change the conclusion?
Review adversarial inputs, forensic evidence, provenance and system exposure. Route deployment decisions to the trust tree.
Article destinations:
- Cybersecurity Conferences
- Cybersecurity References
- Defenses Against Adversarial Attacks
- Integrity Forensics
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Checkpoint: Preserve evidence and demonstrate the control against a relevant failure scenario.
- Yes, I can do this: Compare an alternative, test the choice, or continue through the related trees below.
- Not yet: Revisit the relevant explanation or choose a simpler baseline.
- Choose another decision →