AI Experiments & Benchmarks Navigator
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 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 →