PaLM 2 (Bison): benchmark results

Google's mid-size PaLM 2 tier behind Vertex AI's chat-bison API, announced at I/O in May 2023 and since retired. Provider: Google. Released 2023-05-10. Access: API.

Aggregate Rating 1461 ± 22, rank #3288 of 10916 rated models, from 90 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
HELM Lite - LegalBench - Function of Decision Section46.59Exact Match (%)99.4
HELM Lite - WMT 2014 (fr-en)25.4BLEU-4 (%)97.8
HELM Lite - WMT 2014 (hi-en)21.98BLEU-4 (%)97.8
HELM NaturalQuestions (Open)81.26F1 (%)97.8
HELM WMT 201424.08BLEU-4 (%)97.8
HELM Lite - WMT 2014 (cs-en)25.54BLEU-4 (%)95.6
HELM Lite - WMT 2014 (de-en)22.17BLEU-4 (%)94.4
HELM v2 Lite - LegalBench62.96Exact Match (%)85
HELM MMLU - World Religions88.3EM79.5
HELM v2 Lite - HumanEval (Code)29Pass@1 (%)76.5
HELM MMLU - Sociology92.04EM76.3
HELM Lite - WMT 2014 (ru-en)25.32BLEU-4 (%)73.3

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