arXiv:2503.16402cs.AIcs.CL2025-03ICML被引 15

评估大模型评测数据污染缓解策略,发现现有方法均无效。

The Emperor's New Clothes in Benchmarking? A Rigorous Examination of Mitigation Strategies for LLM Benchmark Data Contamination

  • 设计新评估框架与双指标,实现细粒度问题级分析。
  • 10个模型、5个基准、20种策略测试,无一显著优于原始方案。
  • 揭示当前缓解策略在保真度与抗污染间无法平衡,需新思路。

评测数据污染(BDC)——即评测样本出现在训练集中——正严重威胁大语言模型(LLM)评估的可靠性,导致性能虚高。为应对该问题,研究者提出多种缓解策略,如修改原题或基于原题生成新题。然而,这些策略的有效性缺乏严谨评估。本文构建系统化控制流程,并提出两个新指标:保真度(fidelity)与污染抗性(contamination resistance),实现细粒度的问题级评估。相较以往仅依赖整体准确率下降或匹配的粗略方法,本方法更精准。在10个LLM、5个基准、20种缓解策略及2种污染场景下开展实验,结果表明:无一种策略在所有基准上显著优于未更新基准的原始情况,且无一能有效兼顾保真度与污染抗性。研究凸显了亟需设计更有效的缓解策略。代码已开源:https://github.com/ASTRAL-Group/BDC_mitigation_assessment。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Benchmark Data Contamination (BDC)-the inclusion of benchmark testing samples in the training set-has raised increasing concerns in Large Language Model (LLM) evaluation, leading to falsely inflated performance estimates and undermining evaluation reliability. To address this, researchers have proposed various mitigation strategies to update existing benchmarks, including modifying original questions or generating new ones based on them. However, a rigorous examination of the effectiveness of these mitigation strategies remains lacking. In this paper, we design a systematic and controlled pipeline along with two novel metrics-fidelity and contamination resistance-to provide a fine-grained and comprehensive assessment of existing BDC mitigation strategies. Previous assessment methods, such as accuracy drop and accuracy matching, focus solely on aggregate accuracy, often leading to incomplete or misleading conclusions. Our metrics address this limitation by emphasizing question-level evaluation result matching. Extensive experiments with 10 LLMs, 5 benchmarks, 20 BDC mitigation strategies, and 2 contamination scenarios reveal that no existing strategy significantly improves resistance over the vanilla case (i.e., no benchmark update) across all benchmarks, and none effectively balances fidelity and contamination resistance. These findings underscore the urgent need for designing more effective BDC mitigation strategies. Our code repository is available at https://github.com/ASTRAL-Group/BDC_mitigation_assessment.

大模型评估数据污染基准测试可靠评估

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