gpt-j-6B: benchmark results

EleutherAI's GPT-J-6B, a 28-layer transformer trained with Mesh Transformer JAX using rotary position embeddings, sharing GPT-2/GPT-3's tokenizer, trained on English-only text. Provider: EleutherAI. Released 2021-06-09. Access: Open.

Aggregate Rating 1167 ± 11, rank #1609 of 1656 rated models, from 132 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
TIER (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Judge) - Contextual11.1Attack success rate (%; L3 harmful intent embedded in plausi100
TIER (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Judge) - Euphemistic19.6Attack success rate (%; L2 euphemistic rewrites of the expli100
HELM Classic - BLiMP83.4Exact Match (%)90.3
MMLU-by-task - Machine Learning38.39Accuracy (%)75.5
HELM Classic - Synthetic Reasoning Natural19.88F1 (%)60.3
TIER (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Judge) - Contextual6.4Attack success rate (%; L3 harmful intent embedded in plausi60
TIER (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Judge) - Jailbreak13.9Attack success rate (%; L4 jailbreak prompts: in-the-wild ja60
TIER (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Judge)23.9Overall attack success rate (%; mean of the four threat leve60
TIER (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Judge) - Jailbreak28Attack success rate (%; L4 jailbreak prompts: in-the-wild ja60
HELM Classic - MATH11.08Equivalent (%)57.4
HELM Classic - IMDB93.87Exact Match (%)56.1
RealToxicityPrompts0.05Toxic fraction56.1

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