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Hauptverfasser: Locatelli, Marcelo Sartori, Miranda, Matheus Prado, Costa, Igor Joaquim da Silva, Prates, Matheus Torres, Thomé, Victor, Monteiro, Mateus Zaparoli, Lacerda, Tomas, Pagano, Adriana, Neto, Eduardo Rios, Meira Jr., Wagner, Almeida, Virgilio
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author Locatelli, Marcelo Sartori
Miranda, Matheus Prado
Costa, Igor Joaquim da Silva
Prates, Matheus Torres
Thomé, Victor
Monteiro, Mateus Zaparoli
Lacerda, Tomas
Pagano, Adriana
Neto, Eduardo Rios
Meira Jr., Wagner
Almeida, Virgilio
author_facet Locatelli, Marcelo Sartori
Miranda, Matheus Prado
Costa, Igor Joaquim da Silva
Prates, Matheus Torres
Thomé, Victor
Monteiro, Mateus Zaparoli
Lacerda, Tomas
Pagano, Adriana
Neto, Eduardo Rios
Meira Jr., Wagner
Almeida, Virgilio
contents The Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) is a pivotal test for Brazilian students, required for admission to a significant number of universities in Brazil. The test consists of four objective high-school level tests on Math, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Languages, and one writing essay. Students' answers to the test and to the accompanying socioeconomic status questionnaire are made public every year (albeit anonymized) due to transparency policies from the Brazilian Government. In the context of large language models (LLMs), these data lend themselves nicely to comparing different groups of humans with AI, as we can have access to human and machine answer distributions. We leverage these characteristics of the ENEM dataset and compare GPT-3.5 and 4, and MariTalk, a model trained using Portuguese data, to humans, aiming to ascertain how their answers relate to real societal groups and what that may reveal about the model biases. We divide the human groups by using socioeconomic status (SES), and compare their answer distribution with LLMs for each question and for the essay. We find no significant biases when comparing LLM performance to humans on the multiple-choice Brazilian Portuguese tests, as the distance between model and human answers is mostly determined by the human accuracy. A similar conclusion is found by looking at the generated text as, when analyzing the essays, we observe that human and LLM essays differ in a few key factors, one being the choice of words where model essays were easily separable from human ones. The texts also differ syntactically, with LLM generated essays exhibiting, on average, smaller sentences and less thought units, among other differences. These results suggest that, for Brazilian Portuguese in the ENEM context, LLM outputs represent no group of humans, being significantly different from the answers from Brazilian students across all tests.
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spellingShingle Examining the Behavior of LLM Architectures Within the Framework of Standardized National Exams in Brazil
Locatelli, Marcelo Sartori
Miranda, Matheus Prado
Costa, Igor Joaquim da Silva
Prates, Matheus Torres
Thomé, Victor
Monteiro, Mateus Zaparoli
Lacerda, Tomas
Pagano, Adriana
Neto, Eduardo Rios
Meira Jr., Wagner
Almeida, Virgilio
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
The Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) is a pivotal test for Brazilian students, required for admission to a significant number of universities in Brazil. The test consists of four objective high-school level tests on Math, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Languages, and one writing essay. Students' answers to the test and to the accompanying socioeconomic status questionnaire are made public every year (albeit anonymized) due to transparency policies from the Brazilian Government. In the context of large language models (LLMs), these data lend themselves nicely to comparing different groups of humans with AI, as we can have access to human and machine answer distributions. We leverage these characteristics of the ENEM dataset and compare GPT-3.5 and 4, and MariTalk, a model trained using Portuguese data, to humans, aiming to ascertain how their answers relate to real societal groups and what that may reveal about the model biases. We divide the human groups by using socioeconomic status (SES), and compare their answer distribution with LLMs for each question and for the essay. We find no significant biases when comparing LLM performance to humans on the multiple-choice Brazilian Portuguese tests, as the distance between model and human answers is mostly determined by the human accuracy. A similar conclusion is found by looking at the generated text as, when analyzing the essays, we observe that human and LLM essays differ in a few key factors, one being the choice of words where model essays were easily separable from human ones. The texts also differ syntactically, with LLM generated essays exhibiting, on average, smaller sentences and less thought units, among other differences. These results suggest that, for Brazilian Portuguese in the ENEM context, LLM outputs represent no group of humans, being significantly different from the answers from Brazilian students across all tests.
title Examining the Behavior of LLM Architectures Within the Framework of Standardized National Exams in Brazil
topic Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05035