HellaSwag: Understanding the LLM Benchmark for Commonsense Reasoning

HellaSwag is a large language model (LLM) benchmark designed by Zellers et al. in 2019 to evaluate commonsense reasoning in LLMs. The dataset tests common-sense natural language inference (NLI) about physical situations and uses adversarial filtering to generate deceptive, challenging incorrect answers for a multi-choice test setting. When initially released, state-of-the-art models like BERT had poor commonsense reasoning, with human accuracy soaring above 95% while these cutting-edge models mustered accuracies below 50%. Since its release, HellaSwag has pushed the field to evolve benchmarks and improve LLM performance.

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