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The benchmarks are so easy to game it's not meaningful unless you see a major difference and even then it can be questionable. For example, did anyone read the
by PheonixPharts 3y ago
The benchmarks are so easy to game it's not meaningful unless you see a major difference and even then it can be questionable. For example, did anyone read the Gemini paper[0]?
The team details the slight modification they made to the metric which is basically a tweak on maj@32 that worked in their favor. They choose to do the majority vote of 32 samples unless the probability of the highest sample was too low and then they chose greedy, they also had to learn what "too low" was. Sound convoluted and a bit contrived? They even show plots that clearly demonstrate they settled on the metric because it's the one where GPT-4 results remain they same, but Gemini wins.
Don't get me wrong, LLM evaluation is essential. But in order to do this you need to be very consistent between comparisons and even then the results can be misleading.
0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11805.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11805.pdf
- aeternum 3y agoYes, since GPT-4 is the one to beat, everyone is basically doing the equivalent of p-hacking their benchmarks. If you roll the dice sufficiently many times then only report on your best roll you can make it look like your model is better than it is.