Do These LLM Benchmarks Agree? Fixing Benchmark Evaluation with BenchBench
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| author | Perlitz, Yotam Gera, Ariel Arviv, Ofir Yehudai, Asaf Bandel, Elron Shnarch, Eyal Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal Choshen, Leshem |
| author_facet | Perlitz, Yotam Gera, Ariel Arviv, Ofir Yehudai, Asaf Bandel, Elron Shnarch, Eyal Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal Choshen, Leshem |
| contents | Recent advancements in Language Models (LMs) have catalyzed the creation of multiple benchmarks, designed to assess these models' general capabilities. A crucial task, however, is assessing the validity of the benchmarks themselves. This is most commonly done via Benchmark Agreement Testing (BAT), where new benchmarks are validated against established ones using some agreement metric (e.g., rank correlation). Despite the crucial role of BAT for benchmark builders and consumers, there are no standardized procedures for such agreement testing. This deficiency can lead to invalid conclusions, fostering mistrust in benchmarks and upending the ability to properly choose the appropriate benchmark to use. By analyzing over 40 prominent benchmarks, we demonstrate how some overlooked methodological choices can significantly influence BAT results, potentially undermining the validity of conclusions. To address these inconsistencies, we propose a set of best practices for BAT and demonstrate how utilizing these methodologies greatly improves BAT robustness and validity. To foster adoption and facilitate future research,, we introduce BenchBench, a python package for BAT, and release the BenchBench-leaderboard, a meta-benchmark designed to evaluate benchmarks using their peers. Our findings underscore the necessity for standardized BAT, ensuring the robustness and validity of benchmark evaluations in the evolving landscape of language model research.
BenchBench Package: github.com/IBM/BenchBench
Leaderboard: hf.co/spaces/IBM/BenchBench |
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| spellingShingle | Do These LLM Benchmarks Agree? Fixing Benchmark Evaluation with BenchBench Perlitz, Yotam Gera, Ariel Arviv, Ofir Yehudai, Asaf Bandel, Elron Shnarch, Eyal Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal Choshen, Leshem Computation and Language Recent advancements in Language Models (LMs) have catalyzed the creation of multiple benchmarks, designed to assess these models' general capabilities. A crucial task, however, is assessing the validity of the benchmarks themselves. This is most commonly done via Benchmark Agreement Testing (BAT), where new benchmarks are validated against established ones using some agreement metric (e.g., rank correlation). Despite the crucial role of BAT for benchmark builders and consumers, there are no standardized procedures for such agreement testing. This deficiency can lead to invalid conclusions, fostering mistrust in benchmarks and upending the ability to properly choose the appropriate benchmark to use. By analyzing over 40 prominent benchmarks, we demonstrate how some overlooked methodological choices can significantly influence BAT results, potentially undermining the validity of conclusions. To address these inconsistencies, we propose a set of best practices for BAT and demonstrate how utilizing these methodologies greatly improves BAT robustness and validity. To foster adoption and facilitate future research,, we introduce BenchBench, a python package for BAT, and release the BenchBench-leaderboard, a meta-benchmark designed to evaluate benchmarks using their peers. Our findings underscore the necessity for standardized BAT, ensuring the robustness and validity of benchmark evaluations in the evolving landscape of language model research. BenchBench Package: github.com/IBM/BenchBench Leaderboard: hf.co/spaces/IBM/BenchBench |
| title | Do These LLM Benchmarks Agree? Fixing Benchmark Evaluation with BenchBench |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13696 |