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Main Authors: Sun, Yu, Chen, Keyu, Wang, Shujie, Li, Peiji, Guo, Qipeng, Yan, Hang, Qiu, Xipeng, Huang, Xuanjing, Lin, Dahua
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14869
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author Sun, Yu
Chen, Keyu
Wang, Shujie
Li, Peiji
Guo, Qipeng
Yan, Hang
Qiu, Xipeng
Huang, Xuanjing
Lin, Dahua
author_facet Sun, Yu
Chen, Keyu
Wang, Shujie
Li, Peiji
Guo, Qipeng
Yan, Hang
Qiu, Xipeng
Huang, Xuanjing
Lin, Dahua
contents Large language models (LLMs) garner significant attention for their unprecedented performance, leading to an increasing number of researches evaluating LLMs. However, these evaluation benchmarks are limited to assessing the instruction-following capabilities, overlooking the fundamental abilities that emerge during the pre-training stage. Previous subjective evaluation methods mainly reply on scoring by API models. However, in the absence of references, large models have shown limited ability to discern subtle differences. To bridge the gap, we propose F-Eval, a bilingual evaluation benchmark to evaluate the fundamental abilities, including expression, commonsense and logic. The tasks in F-Eval include multi-choice objective tasks, open-ended objective tasks, reference-based subjective tasks and reference-free subjective tasks. For reference-free subjective tasks, we devise new evaluation methods, serving as alternatives to scoring by API models. We conduct evaluations on 13 advanced LLMs. Results show that our evaluation methods show higher correlation coefficients and larger distinction than other evaluators. Additionally, we discuss the influence of different model sizes, dimensions, and normalization methods. We anticipate that F-Eval will facilitate the study of LLMs' fundamental abilities.
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spellingShingle F-Eval: Assessing Fundamental Abilities with Refined Evaluation Methods
Sun, Yu
Chen, Keyu
Wang, Shujie
Li, Peiji
Guo, Qipeng
Yan, Hang
Qiu, Xipeng
Huang, Xuanjing
Lin, Dahua
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) garner significant attention for their unprecedented performance, leading to an increasing number of researches evaluating LLMs. However, these evaluation benchmarks are limited to assessing the instruction-following capabilities, overlooking the fundamental abilities that emerge during the pre-training stage. Previous subjective evaluation methods mainly reply on scoring by API models. However, in the absence of references, large models have shown limited ability to discern subtle differences. To bridge the gap, we propose F-Eval, a bilingual evaluation benchmark to evaluate the fundamental abilities, including expression, commonsense and logic. The tasks in F-Eval include multi-choice objective tasks, open-ended objective tasks, reference-based subjective tasks and reference-free subjective tasks. For reference-free subjective tasks, we devise new evaluation methods, serving as alternatives to scoring by API models. We conduct evaluations on 13 advanced LLMs. Results show that our evaluation methods show higher correlation coefficients and larger distinction than other evaluators. Additionally, we discuss the influence of different model sizes, dimensions, and normalization methods. We anticipate that F-Eval will facilitate the study of LLMs' fundamental abilities.
title F-Eval: Assessing Fundamental Abilities with Refined Evaluation Methods
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14869