pythia-2.8B: benchmark results

EleutherAI's Pythia-2.8B, part of the eight-size Pythia Scaling Suite built for interpretability research, trained on the Pile with 154 intermediate checkpoints released for analysis. Provider: EleutherAI. Released 2023-04-03. Access: Open.

Aggregate Rating 1066 ± 33, rank #1650 of 1656 rated models, from 64 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
ToolBench - WebShop Long0Task Score44.2
ToolBench - Google Sheets12.9Task Score41.9
RoBench-25 (Recovery Instruction) - Trigger C0.22Clipped Heidke skill score (0-1; chance-corrected accuracy o40
RoBench-25 (Recovery Instruction) - Trigger E0.19Clipped Heidke skill score (0-1; chance-corrected accuracy o40
ToolBench - VirtualHome14.8Task Score39.5
ToolBench - Tabletop7.6Task Score33.7
RoBench-25 (No Defense Instruction) - Trigger E0.14Clipped Heidke skill score (0-1; chance-corrected accuracy o33.3
RoBench-25 (No Defense Instruction) - Trigger F0.05Clipped Heidke skill score (0-1; chance-corrected accuracy o33.3
ToolBench - Open Weather49Task Score30.2
ToolBench - The Cat API54Task Score25.6
ToolBench Leaderboard18.58Average Task Score25.6
ToolBench - WebShop Short0Task Score24.4

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