arXiv:2409.16191cs.CL2024-09被引 45

评测大模型生成长文本能力,发现多数模型难超4000词。

HelloBench: Evaluating Long Text Generation Capabilities of Large Language Models

  • 按布鲁姆分类法设计五类长文本生成任务,覆盖开放问答到创意写作。
  • 30个主流模型测试显示,90%以上无法稳定生成超4000词内容且易重复退化。
  • 新评估方法HelloEval比传统指标更贴近人工评分,节省评估成本。

近年来,大语言模型(LLMs)在各类任务中展现出卓越能力(如长上下文理解),但长文本生成能力尚未得到充分研究。为此,我们提出层级式长文本生成基准(HelloBench),一个全面、真实场景、开放式的基准,用于评估模型生成长文本的表现。基于布鲁姆分类法,HelloBench将长文本生成任务划分为五类:开放式问答、摘要、对话、文本补全和启发式文本生成。此外,我们提出了层级式长文本评估方法(HelloEval),该方法在显著降低人工评估时间和成本的同时,仍与人工评价保持高度相关性。我们在约30个主流大模型上进行了广泛实验,结果表明当前模型普遍缺乏长文本生成能力:第一,无论指令是否明确或隐含长度约束,大多数模型无法生成超过4000词的文本;第二,部分模型虽能生成更长文本,但普遍存在严重重复和质量下降问题;第三,通过与传统指标(如ROUGE、BLEU)及基于LLM的评判方法对比,证实HelloEval与人工评价的相关性最高。代码已开源至https://github.com/Quehry/HelloBench。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various tasks (e.g., long-context understanding), and many benchmarks have been proposed. However, we observe that long text generation capabilities are not well investigated. Therefore, we introduce the Hierarchical Long Text Generation Benchmark (HelloBench), a comprehensive, in-the-wild, and open-ended benchmark to evaluate LLMs' performance in generating long text. Based on Bloom's Taxonomy, HelloBench categorizes long text generation tasks into five subtasks: open-ended QA, summarization, chat, text completion, and heuristic text generation. Besides, we propose Hierarchical Long Text Evaluation (HelloEval), a human-aligned evaluation method that significantly reduces the time and effort required for human evaluation while maintaining a high correlation with human evaluation. We have conducted extensive experiments across around 30 mainstream LLMs and observed that the current LLMs lack long text generation capabilities. Specifically, first, regardless of whether the instructions include explicit or implicit length constraints, we observe that most LLMs cannot generate text that is longer than 4000 words. Second, we observe that while some LLMs can generate longer text, many issues exist (e.g., severe repetition and quality degradation). Third, to demonstrate the effectiveness of HelloEval, we compare HelloEval with traditional metrics (e.g., ROUGE, BLEU, etc.) and LLM-as-a-Judge methods, which show that HelloEval has the highest correlation with human evaluation. We release our code in https://github.com/Quehry/HelloBench.

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