UpgradeBench: A Decision-Centric Benchmark for Upgrading Fine-Tuned LLM Specialists
This work presents UpgradeBench, a decision-driven longitudinal benchmark covering four consecutive Qwen releases, one continuation checkpoint, six tasks, and two model sizes, augmented by OLMo checkpoints with known training lineage, and disentangles three core questions: whether a new checkpoint improves fixed-recipe...