用评分矩阵简化大模型评测,仅靠分数就能选出代表性数据集。
SimBA: Simplifying Benchmark Analysis Using Performance Matrices Alone
- 通过三阶段框架分析评测数据:比对模型与数据集、找代表性子集、预测性能。
- 仅用1/16、1/58、1/4的测试集即可覆盖95%以上评测表现。
- 适合模型开发者快速筛选数据,也帮助数据创建者验证新数据独特性。
现代语言模型在大型基准上评估,但结果难以解读,尤其在模型选择时。本文提出SimBA,一个三阶段框架以简化基准分析:第一阶段stalk,进行数据集与模型间的比较;第二阶段prowl,仅基于原始评分发现代表性子集;第三阶段pounce,利用该子集预测未见模型的性能。在HELM、MMLU和BigBenchLite三个主流基准上应用表明,数据集与模型间关系紧密。我们开发的算法仅需使用6.25%(1/16)、1.7%(1/58)和28.4%(21/74)的原数据集,即可实现至少95%的覆盖率。进一步地,仅用这些代表性子集,便能保留模型排名,并以接近零均方误差预测新模型性能。SimBA有助于提升模型训练效率,也支持数据创建者判断新数据是否具有差异性。代码已开源:https://github.com/nishantsubramani/simba。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modern language models are evaluated on large benchmarks, which are difficult to make sense of, especially for model selection. Looking at the raw evaluation numbers themselves using a model-centric lens, we propose SimBA, a three phase framework to Simplify Benchmark Analysis. The three phases of SimBA are: stalk, where we conduct dataset & model comparisons, prowl, where we discover a representative subset, and pounce, where we use the representative subset to predict performance on a held-out set of models. Applying SimBA to three popular LM benchmarks: HELM, MMLU, and BigBenchLite reveals that across all three benchmarks, datasets and models relate strongly to one another (stalk). We develop an representative set discovery algorithm which covers a benchmark using raw evaluation scores alone. Using our algorithm, we find that with 6.25% (1/16), 1.7% (1/58), and 28.4% (21/74) of the datasets for HELM, MMLU, and BigBenchLite respectively, we achieve coverage levels of at least 95% (prowl). Additionally, using just these representative subsets, we can both preserve model ranks and predict performance on a held-out set of models with near zero mean-squared error (pounce). Taken together, SimBA can help model developers improve efficiency during model training and dataset creators validate whether their newly created dataset differs from existing datasets in a benchmark. Our code is open source, available at https://github.com/nishantsubramani/simba.
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