About evaluation

The Swallow Project is independently conducting evaluation experiments of publicly available LLMs in parallel with the development of LLMs in order to serve as a reference for the development of high-performance large language models (LLMs). By comparing with LLMs developed not only in Japan but also around the world, we can learn the “current level” of the Swallow project. By evaluating each LLM under the fair conditions while taking into account its unique specifications (tokenization, system prompts, etc.) and contrasting them with the development methods of LLMs, we can examine the “recipe” for developing a high-performance LLM. We also realize the challenges in LLM evaluation by experiencing that high or low task evaluation scores are due to not only differences in LLM performance but also trivial specifications in the evaluation (e.g., prompt format). On this site, you can view the results of LLM evaluations conducted within the Swallow project, including bar graphs, radar charts, and scatter plots. We hope that this site will be useful not only as information for selecting the right LLM for your application, but also as reference information for the development of LLMs that are strong in Japanese.

Evaluation tasks

In the 2024 Swallow project, we are conducting LLM evaluation experiments using 10 datasets for the Japanese understanding and generation tasks, MT-Bench for the Japanese multi-turn dialogue task, and 9 datasets for the English understanding and generation tasks. For all tasks, the evaluation scores range from 0 (lowest) to 1 (highest).

Japanese understanding and generation tasks

Japanese multi-turn dialogue tasks (Japanese MT-Bench)

We used Japanese MT-Bench Nejumi Leaderboard Neo version, a Japanese version of MT-Bench, a benchmark for multi-turn dialogue capability. We evaluate instruction-tuned models only. This benchmark automatically rate response sentences on a 10-point scale using GPT-4 (gpt-4-1106-preview). The categories of evaluation are as follows.

Note that our Japanese MT-Bench evaluation results are lower than those of the other leaderboards. We think that this difference in scores is caused by the fact that many leaderboards use GPT-4 (gpt-4-0613) to evaluate response texts, while we use GPT-4 (gpt-4-1106-preview). Our investigation revealed that while there are significant differences between our and the other leaderboard’s evaluation scores, the relative rankings among the models remain largely unchanged. Therefore, we continued the evaluation without changing the GPT-4 version (since we had already completed many of the evaluations).

nglish understanding and generation tasks

Evaluation tools

We used these software packages for evaluation.

Evaluated models

We list the LLMs in alphabetical order.

Acknowledgements

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