PredictaBoard: Benchmarking LLM Score Predictability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14445v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:52:38 GMT
• Title: PredictaBoard: Benchmarking LLM Score Predictability
• Authors: Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Konstantinos Voudouris, Ben Slater, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, José Hernández-Orallo, Lexin Zhou, Wout Schellaert,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) often fail unpredictably. This poses a significant challenge to ensuring their safe deployment. We present PredictaBoard, a novel collaborative benchmarking framework.
• Score: 50.47497036981544
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• Abstract: Despite possessing impressive skills, Large Language Models (LLMs) often fail unpredictably, demonstrating inconsistent success in even basic common sense reasoning tasks. This unpredictability poses a significant challenge to ensuring their safe deployment, as identifying and operating within a reliable "safe zone" is essential for mitigating risks. To address this, we present PredictaBoard, a novel collaborative benchmarking framework designed to evaluate the ability of score predictors (referred to as assessors) to anticipate LLM errors on specific task instances (i.e., prompts) from existing datasets. PredictaBoard evaluates pairs of LLMs and assessors by considering the rejection rate at different tolerance errors. As such, PredictaBoard stimulates research into developing better assessors and making LLMs more predictable, not only with a higher average performance. We conduct illustrative experiments using baseline assessors and state-of-the-art LLMs. PredictaBoard highlights the critical need to evaluate predictability alongside performance, paving the way for safer AI systems where errors are not only minimised but also anticipated and effectively mitigated. Code for our benchmark can be found at https://github.com/Kinds-of-Intelligence-CFI/PredictaBoard

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