DISCO: Diversifying Sample Condensation for Efficient Model Evaluation

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Rubinstein, Alexander, Raible, Benjamin, Gubri, Martin, Oh, Seong Joon
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866912933607374848
author Rubinstein, Alexander
Raible, Benjamin
Gubri, Martin
Oh, Seong Joon
author_facet Rubinstein, Alexander
Raible, Benjamin
Gubri, Martin
Oh, Seong Joon
contents Evaluating modern machine learning models has become prohibitively expensive. Benchmarks such as LMMs-Eval and HELM demand thousands of GPU hours per model. Costly evaluation reduces inclusivity, slows the cycle of innovation, and worsens environmental impact. The typical approach follows two steps. First, select an anchor subset of data. Second, train a mapping from the accuracy on this subset to the final test result. The drawback is that anchor selection depends on clustering, which can be complex and sensitive to design choices. We argue that promoting diversity among samples is not essential; what matters is to select samples that $\textit{maximise diversity in model responses}$. Our method, $\textbf{Diversifying Sample Condensation (DISCO)}$, selects the top-k samples with the greatest model disagreements. This uses greedy, sample-wise statistics rather than global clustering. The approach is conceptually simpler. From a theoretical view, inter-model disagreement provides an information-theoretically optimal rule for such greedy selection. $\textbf{DISCO}$ shows empirical gains over prior methods, achieving state-of-the-art results in performance prediction across MMLU, Hellaswag, Winogrande, and ARC. Code is available here: https://github.com/arubique/disco-public.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2510_07959
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DISCO: Diversifying Sample Condensation for Efficient Model Evaluation
Rubinstein, Alexander
Raible, Benjamin
Gubri, Martin
Oh, Seong Joon
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating modern machine learning models has become prohibitively expensive. Benchmarks such as LMMs-Eval and HELM demand thousands of GPU hours per model. Costly evaluation reduces inclusivity, slows the cycle of innovation, and worsens environmental impact. The typical approach follows two steps. First, select an anchor subset of data. Second, train a mapping from the accuracy on this subset to the final test result. The drawback is that anchor selection depends on clustering, which can be complex and sensitive to design choices. We argue that promoting diversity among samples is not essential; what matters is to select samples that $\textit{maximise diversity in model responses}$. Our method, $\textbf{Diversifying Sample Condensation (DISCO)}$, selects the top-k samples with the greatest model disagreements. This uses greedy, sample-wise statistics rather than global clustering. The approach is conceptually simpler. From a theoretical view, inter-model disagreement provides an information-theoretically optimal rule for such greedy selection. $\textbf{DISCO}$ shows empirical gains over prior methods, achieving state-of-the-art results in performance prediction across MMLU, Hellaswag, Winogrande, and ARC. Code is available here: https://github.com/arubique/disco-public.
title DISCO: Diversifying Sample Condensation for Efficient Model Evaluation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07959