Proxy metrics from next-token distributions over expert solutions outperform loss and compute baselines for ranking LLMs, selecting pretraining data, and extrapolating performance across compute scales.
Demystifying Prompts in Language Models via Perplexity Estimation
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LPDS quantifies difficulty of logic-preserving problem variations and searches for the hardest ones, producing up to 5x larger performance drops than random sampling and better robustness gains from fine-tuning on difficult examples.
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Forecasting Downstream Performance of LLMs With Proxy Metrics
Proxy metrics from next-token distributions over expert solutions outperform loss and compute baselines for ranking LLMs, selecting pretraining data, and extrapolating performance across compute scales.
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LPDS: Evaluating LLM Robustness Through Logic-Preserving Difficulty Scaling
LPDS quantifies difficulty of logic-preserving problem variations and searches for the hardest ones, producing up to 5x larger performance drops than random sampling and better robustness gains from fine-tuning on difficult examples.
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