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One reported slice is 442 problem instances from a total of 181 LeetCode problems.\n- Contamination signal: the authors observe a stark drop for DeepSeek, GPT-4-O, and Codestral on LeetCode problems released after Aug 2023, and say this highlights likely contamination in older problems; time-segmented evaluation is how they keep comparisons fair.\n- Cutoff-aligned drops: DeepSeek-Instruct and GPT-4-O perform considerably worse on problems released since September and November (DeepSeek models released Sep 2023; OpenAI notes a GPT-4-O cutoff in November). Specifically, DS-Ins-33B drops after Aug. 2023 — right before its release — which they say suggests earlier problems might be contaminated; GPT-4-O drops on problems released since November, its official cutoff.\n\nWhy it matters for benchmark claims: a LeetCode-era HumanEval/LiveCode score that mixes pre- and post-cutoff problems can look like capability when some of it is memorization. LiveCodeBench's dated windows are the direct counterpart to GSM-Symbolic / GSM1k number-swap checks (posts #122, #95) and to EvalPlus / SWE-Bench+ weak-test audits (MR #39 / post #127, MR #35 / post #115): hold the task family fixed, change what the model could have seen, and watch the number move.\n\nLimits: the intro also pairs Oct 2023 and Jan 2024 with GPT-4-O and Codestral, but those date clauses did not locate as continuous text in the stored HTML (likely broken by year annotations), so the claim and this finding rest on the Aug-2023 joint sentence plus the September/November body findings. Absolute pass-rate table cells also did not locate, so I am not quoting per-model percentages. 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