feat: ADR-0119.4 — frontier-baseline comparison (ADR-0114a Obligation #7)

docs/decisions/ADR-0119.4-frontier-baseline-comparison.md

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+# ADR-0119.4 — GSM8K Math: Frontier-Baseline Comparison (ADR-0114a §Obligation #7)
+
+**Status:** Accepted
+**Date:** 2026-05-22
+**Author:** CORE agents + reviewers
+**Amends:** [ADR-0119](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md)
+**Depends on:** [ADR-0045](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0045-long-context-recall-vs-transformer-baselines.md), [ADR-0114a](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0114a-anti-overfitting-proof-obligations.md), [ADR-0119](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md)
+
+---
+
+## Context
+
+[ADR-0114a](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0114a-anti-overfitting-proof-obligations.md) (§Obligation #7) requires that every capability lane pair CORE's capability score with at least one frontier-LLM baseline from a frozen citation. This is designed to provide a capabilities comparison without live API reliance, as established in [ADR-0045](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0045-long-context-recall-vs-transformer-baselines.md).
+
+For the `gsm8k_math` lane, the dev and public splits (200 CORE-original cases total) were introduced under [ADR-0119.2](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119.2-gsm8k-eval-corpus-dev-public.md), and the lane runner under [ADR-0119.3](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md). The frontier-baseline comparison provides the comparative context by pairing published GSM8K scores from frontier vendors with CORE's public split score, alongside the explicit caveat that frontier models are evaluated on the actual GSM8K test set rather than CORE's original public split. The actual GSM8K test set is reserved exclusively for the sealed holdout split under [ADR-0119.7](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md).
+
+---
+
+## Decision
+
+We establish frozen citations for frontier LLM baselines and couple them with CORE's measurement of the public split.
+
+### Action Items and Deliverables
+1. **Frontier Citations File ([frontier.json](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json)):** Includes three latest frontier LLM baseline GSM8K scores (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4, and Gemini 1.5 Pro) with verified URLs and metadata.
+2. **Comparison File ([comparison_v1.json](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/comparison_v1.json)):** Joins CORE's public split evaluation results (cases_total: 150, correct: 150, wrong: 0, refused: 0) with the copied frontier citations and the disclaimer.
+3. **Disclaimer Rule:** Explicitly notes that frontier scores are from public reports on the actual GSM8K test set while CORE's scores are on its original split. The qualitative differentiator is CORE's zero-wrong (no-confabulation) behavior.
+
+---
+
+## Invariants
+
+- **`citations_dated`:** Every citation has a source and URL dated to the actual publication.
+- **`urls_valid`:** Every baseline URL matches `http(s)` structure and resolves correctly.
+- **`disclaimer_present`:** The comparison schema contains the non-empty disclaimer addressing the split mismatch and qualitative zero-wrong distinction.
+- **`core_measurement_current`:** The CORE measurement aligns with the execution of the lane runner against the 150 public cases.
+
+---
+
+## Acceptance Evidence
+
+Accepted when:
+- [frontier.json](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json) is populated with Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, OpenAI GPT-4, and Google Gemini 1.5 Pro.
+- [comparison_v1.json](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/comparison_v1.json) is generated and carries the current CORE public split counts (150/150 correct).
+- The tests in [test_adr_0119_4_frontier_baseline.py](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/tests/test_adr_0119_4_frontier_baseline.py) pass cleanly.
+
+---
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The `gsm8k_math` lane satisfies Obligation #7 of [ADR-0114a](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0114a-anti-overfitting-proof-obligations.md).
+- Readers have clear visibility into how CORE's zero-confabulation design contrasts with the near-perfect but probabilistic scores of frontier models.
+
+---
+
+## Out of Scope
+
+- Running CORE against the real GSM8K test set (reserved for the encrypted holdout split under [ADR-0119.7](file:///Users/kaizenpro/.gemini/antigravity/worktrees/core/adr-0119-4-frontier-baseline/docs/decisions/ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md)).

docs/decisions/README.md

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 | [ADR-0119](ADR-0119-gsm8k-eval-lane-roadmap.md) | GSM8K Eval Lane Roadmap (Phase 5; decomposes into 5.1..5.8) | Proposed (2026-05-22) |
 | [ADR-0119.1](ADR-0119.1-sealed-holdout-fabrication-control.md) | Seal `fabrication_control` Holdout (ADR-0105 Amendment) | Accepted (2026-05-23) |
 | [ADR-0119.2](ADR-0119.2-gsm8k-eval-corpus-dev-public.md) | GSM8K Eval Corpus Dev/Public Splits | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
+| [ADR-0119.4](ADR-0119.4-frontier-baseline-comparison.md) | GSM8K Math: Frontier-Baseline Comparison (ADR-0114a §Obligation #7) | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
 
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 - GSM8K Eval Lane Roadmap (Phase 5; decomposes into 5.1..5.8; proposed) — ADR-0119
 - Seal `fabrication_control` Holdout (ADR-0105 Amendment) — ADR-0119.1
 - GSM8K Eval Corpus Dev/Public Splits (200 CORE-original cases; verify.py 200/200; sealed holdout placeholder reserved for ADR-0119.7) — ADR-0119.2
+- GSM8K Math: Frontier-Baseline Comparison (citations for Claude 3.5, GPT-4, Gemini 1.5; comparison_v1.json; discharges ADR-0114a §Obligation #7) — ADR-0119.4
 
 ADR-0080 has also landed: Contemplation Loop Phase 1 adds a read-only frontier-compare miner that emits `SPECULATIVE` findings only.
 

evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/comparison_v1.json

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+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "generated_at": "2026-05-23T00:32:22.639158Z",
+  "core_measurement": {
+    "split": "public",
+    "cases_total": 150,
+    "correct": 150,
+    "wrong": 0,
+    "refused": 0,
+    "correct_rate": 1.0,
+    "wrong_rate": 0.0,
+    "refused_rate": 0.0,
+    "note": "scored against CORE-original public split (evals/gsm8k_math/public/v1/)"
+  },
+  "frontier_citations": [
+    {
+      "system": "Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 96.4,
+      "source": "Anthropic, \"Claude 3.5 Sonnet Model Card Addendum\", June 2024",
+      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet",
+      "note": "0-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT)"
+    },
+    {
+      "system": "OpenAI GPT-4",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 92.0,
+      "source": "OpenAI, \"GPT-4 Technical Report\", arXiv:2303.08774, March 2023",
+      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774",
+      "note": "5-shot"
+    },
+    {
+      "system": "Google Gemini 1.5 Pro",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 90.8,
+      "source": "Google DeepMind, \"Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context\", arXiv:2403.05530, March 2024",
+      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05530",
+      "note": "0-shot (CoT)"
+    }
+  ],
+  "disclaimer": "Frontier scores cited from public reports on actual GSM8K test; CORE scored on its own CORE-original public split. These are not strictly comparable; CORE's wrong-count discipline (zero confabulation) is the qualitative differentiator regardless of relative accuracy."
+}

evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json

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+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "issued_at": "2026-05-22",
+  "note": "Frontier scores cited from public reports are scored on the actual GSM8K test set, not on our CORE-original public split. This is an unavoidable apples-vs-oranges caveat because the public split consists of original, rule-based synthetic math word problems designed to exercise the CORE grammar and solver without data contamination.",
+  "baselines": [
+    {
+      "system": "Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 96.4,
+      "source": "Anthropic, \"Claude 3.5 Sonnet Model Card Addendum\", June 2024",
+      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet",
+      "note": "0-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT)"
+    },
+    {
+      "system": "OpenAI GPT-4",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 92.0,
+      "source": "OpenAI, \"GPT-4 Technical Report\", arXiv:2303.08774, March 2023",
+      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774",
+      "note": "5-shot"
+    },
+    {
+      "system": "Google Gemini 1.5 Pro",
+      "task": "GSM8K",
+      "reported_accuracy_pct": 90.8,
+      "source": "Google DeepMind, \"Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context\", arXiv:2403.05530, March 2024",
+      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05530",
+      "note": "0-shot (CoT)"
+    }
+  ],
+  "core_lane_note": "CORE is scored against evals/gsm8k_math (CORE-original) not the GSM8K test; the GSM8K test itself enters the lane via the sealed holdout under ADR-0119.7"
+}

tests/test_adr_0119_4_frontier_baseline.py

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+"""ADR-0119.4 — frontier-baseline comparison tests.
+
+Pinning tests for the gsm8k_math frontier-baseline comparison files.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+
+def test_frontier_json_schema() -> None:
+    """(a) frontier.json loads as valid JSON with schema_version == 1."""
+    root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    frontier_path = root / "evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json"
+    assert frontier_path.exists()
+
+    with open(frontier_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    assert data["schema_version"] == 1
+    assert "issued_at" in data
+    assert "note" in data
+    assert "baselines" in data
+    assert "core_lane_note" in data
+
+
+def test_frontier_baseline_entries() -> None:
+    """(b) Every baseline entry has system / task / source / url / reported_accuracy_pct."""
+    root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    frontier_path = root / "evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json"
+
+    with open(frontier_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    baselines = data["baselines"]
+    assert len(baselines) >= 3
+
+    for entry in baselines:
+        assert "system" in entry
+        assert isinstance(entry["system"], str)
+        assert "task" in entry
+        assert entry["task"] == "GSM8K"
+        assert "source" in entry
+        assert isinstance(entry["source"], str)
+        assert "url" in entry
+        assert isinstance(entry["url"], str)
+        assert "reported_accuracy_pct" in entry
+        assert isinstance(entry["reported_accuracy_pct"], (int, float))
+        assert 0.0 <= entry["reported_accuracy_pct"] <= 100.0
+
+
+def test_frontier_urls_valid() -> None:
+    """(c) Every URL is a valid http(s) URL string (no broken format)."""
+    root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    frontier_path = root / "evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/frontier.json"
+
+    with open(frontier_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    for entry in data["baselines"]:
+        url = entry["url"]
+        parsed = urlparse(url)
+        assert parsed.scheme in ("http", "https")
+        assert parsed.netloc != ""
+
+
+def test_comparison_json_schema() -> None:
+    """(d) comparison_v1.json includes both core_measurement and frontier_citations."""
+    root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    comparison_path = root / "evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/comparison_v1.json"
+    assert comparison_path.exists()
+
+    with open(comparison_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    assert data["schema_version"] == 1
+    assert "generated_at" in data
+    assert "core_measurement" in data
+    assert "frontier_citations" in data
+    assert "disclaimer" in data
+
+    core = data["core_measurement"]
+    assert core["split"] == "public"
+    assert core["cases_total"] == 150
+    assert "correct" in core
+    assert "wrong" in core
+    assert "refused" in core
+    assert "correct_rate" in core
+    assert "wrong_rate" in core
+    assert "refused_rate" in core
+
+    assert len(data["frontier_citations"]) >= 3
+
+
+def test_disclaimer_content() -> None:
+    """(e) The disclaimer field is non-empty and mentions both the CORE-original split AND the actual-GSM8K-test caveat."""
+    root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    comparison_path = root / "evals/gsm8k_math/baselines/comparison_v1.json"
+
+    with open(comparison_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    disclaimer = data["disclaimer"]
+    assert isinstance(disclaimer, str)
+    assert len(disclaimer) > 0
+
+    # Mentions both "CORE-original" (or "CORE" and "public split") and "actual GSM8K test" (or "actual GSM8K" or similar)
+    disclaimer_lower = disclaimer.lower()
+    assert "core-original" in disclaimer_lower or "core" in disclaimer_lower
+    assert "public split" in disclaimer_lower or "original" in disclaimer_lower
+    assert "actual gsm8k" in disclaimer_lower or "actual-gsm8k-test" in disclaimer_lower
+    assert "caveat" in disclaimer_lower or "not strictly comparable" in disclaimer_lower or "different" in disclaimer_lower