pythia-12B: benchmark results

EleutherAI's Pythia-12B, the largest model in the eight-size Pythia Scaling Suite built for interpretability research, trained on the Pile with 154 intermediate checkpoints released for analysis. Provider: EleutherAI. Released 2023-02-28. Access: Open.

Aggregate Rating 1154 ± 11, rank #1621 of 1656 rated models, from 115 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
HELM Classic - Dyck79.8Exact Match (%)97.1
HELM Classic - MATH Chain-of-Thought6.8Equivalent (%)63.2
HELM Classic - bAbI49.12Exact Match (%)56.5
MMLU-by-task - Machine Learning33.04Accuracy (%)53.4
HELM Classic - MATH10.05Equivalent (%)51.5
MMLU-by-task - High School Mathematics27.04Accuracy (%)50.6
HELM Classic - Entity Matching77.98Exact Match (%)45.5
MMLU-by-task - College Mathematics31Accuracy (%)45.5
MMLU-by-task - High School Statistics36.57Accuracy (%)45.4
ToolBench - WebShop Long0Task Score44.2
HELM Classic - IMDB93.1Exact Match (%)42.4
MMLU-by-task - Elementary Mathematics26.98Accuracy (%)39.2

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