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Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

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Pith's one-line read Language models are now densely benchmarked on the same 42 scenarios and 7 metrics under standardized conditions for all 30 models evaluated.

desk verdict HELM runs 30 models on a shared set of 16 scenarios and 7 metrics at 96% density with all raw outputs released, which directly improves comparability over prior scattered evaluations. read the letter →

arxiv 2211.09110 v2 pith:4PQYXXNT submitted 2022-11-16 cs.CL cs.AIcs.LG

Percy Liang , Rishi Bommasani , Tony Lee , Dimitris Tsipras , Dilara Soylu , Michihiro Yasunaga , Yian Zhang , Deepak Narayanan
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Yuhuai Wu Ananya Kumar Benjamin Newman Binhang Yuan Bobby Yan Ce Zhang Christian Cosgrove Christopher D. Manning Christopher Ré Diana Acosta-Navas Drew A. Hudson Eric Zelikman Esin Durmus Faisal Ladhak Frieda Rong Hongyu Ren Huaxiu Yao Jue Wang Keshav Santhanam Laurel Orr Lucia Zheng Mert Yuksekgonul Mirac Suzgun Nathan Kim Neel Guha Niladri Chatterji Omar Khattab Peter Henderson Qian Huang Ryan Chi Sang Michael Xie Shibani Santurkar Surya Ganguli Tatsunori Hashimoto Thomas Icard Tianyi Zhang Vishrav Chaudhary William Wang Xuechen Li Yifan Mai Yuhui Zhang Yuta Koreeda
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper introduces a method to evaluate language models more transparently by first taxonomizing the space of use cases and desired properties, then selecting a broad feasible subset while noting gaps such as certain dialects or trustworthiness measures. It applies seven metrics including accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity, and efficiency to sixteen core scenarios plus targeted evaluations on twenty-six more. Thirty models spanning open, limited-access, and closed types are run on all forty-two scenarios, raising average coverage from 17.9 percent to 96 percent and producing twenty-five top-level findings with all raw prompts and completions released. A sympathetic reader would care because prior evaluations left models with almost no shared test cases, making direct comparisons and risk assessments unreliable.

What carries the argument

The HELM taxonomy of scenarios (use cases) and metrics (desiderata) combined with a multi-metric measurement protocol that applies accuracy plus six additional metrics to each core scenario.

What would settle it

Repeating the full set of evaluations on the same thirty models but with an alternate selection of scenarios that still meets the coverage criteria produces substantially different top-level findings or model rankings.

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Core claim

HELM taxonomizes the vast space of scenarios and metrics for language models, selects a broad subset based on coverage and feasibility while noting missing areas, adopts a multi-metric approach measuring seven metrics on sixteen core scenarios when possible, performs seven targeted evaluations, and conducts a large-scale evaluation of thirty prominent language models on all forty-two scenarios, improving coverage to 96 percent and surfacing twenty-five top-level findings, with full release of raw data and a modular toolkit.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen subset of scenarios and metrics is broad enough to give a holistic view of model capabilities, limitations, and risks even with acknowledged gaps in coverage.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Trade-offs across the seven metrics become visible for every model rather than accuracy alone determining perceived quality.
  • All thirty models can be compared directly because they share the same core scenarios and metrics under identical conditions.
  • Twenty-one previously unused scenarios enter mainstream evaluation, expanding the range of tested capabilities.
  • The released raw prompts and completions enable independent further analysis by the community.
  • A modular toolkit supports continuous addition of new scenarios, metrics, and models as a living benchmark.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Developers might shift focus from maximizing accuracy to balancing multiple metrics when the standardized results show consistent trade-offs.
  • The public data release could support targeted studies on specific failure modes that the top-level findings only flag.
  • The approach of noting explicit gaps in the taxonomy could encourage parallel efforts to fill areas like trustworthiness metrics.
  • Similar taxonomy-plus-multi-metric structures might apply to evaluating other foundation models beyond language.
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Summary. The paper introduces HELM, a framework for holistic evaluation of language models. It first taxonomizes the space of scenarios (use cases) and metrics (desiderata), then selects a feasible subset of 16 core scenarios and 7 metrics (accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity, efficiency) for multi-metric evaluation (achieved 87.5% of the time). It evaluates 30 models (open, limited-access, closed) on these plus 26 targeted scenarios, achieving 96% dense coverage on the core set (up from prior average of 17.9%), surfaces 25 top-level findings, and releases all raw prompts, completions, and a modular toolkit.

Significance. If the results hold, this provides a substantial advance in standardized, multi-metric LM evaluation that exposes trade-offs and improves transparency over prior fragmented benchmarks. Explicit credit is due for the public release of raw model outputs and the modular toolkit, which directly support reproducibility and community extensions. The documented gaps (e.g., QA for neglected dialects, trustworthiness metrics) and the 96% coverage claim are presented as concrete improvements rather than exhaustive holism.

major comments (1)
  1. [evaluation section / abstract] The central coverage claim (96.0% on 16 core scenarios across all 30 models) is a direct measurement and load-bearing for the contribution, but the manuscript should clarify in the evaluation section how the prior 17.9% average was computed (e.g., which models and scenarios were included in the baseline calculation) to allow readers to assess the improvement magnitude.
minor comments (4)
  1. [abstract] Abstract: the 87.5% multi-metric figure is stated without noting it corresponds to 14 out of 16 scenarios; adding this parenthetical would improve immediate clarity.
  2. [abstract / introduction] The 25 top-level findings are referenced but not summarized or enumerated in the abstract or introduction; a concise bullet list or table reference would help readers locate the key outputs.
  3. [taxonomy section] Notation for scenarios and metrics is introduced in the taxonomy section but could benefit from a single consolidated table early in the paper to reduce cross-referencing.
  4. [targeted evaluations section] The targeted evaluations (7 evaluations on 26 scenarios) are described at a high level; a brief table mapping each targeted evaluation to its scenarios and metrics would aid navigation.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment and recommendation for minor revision. We address the major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [evaluation section / abstract] The central coverage claim (96.0% on 16 core scenarios across all 30 models) is a direct measurement and load-bearing for the contribution, but the manuscript should clarify in the evaluation section how the prior 17.9% average was computed (e.g., which models and scenarios were included in the baseline calculation) to allow readers to assess the improvement magnitude.

    Authors: We agree that providing more detail on the baseline would improve clarity. The 17.9% average was computed by surveying the published evaluations of the 30 models against the 16 core scenarios prior to HELM (i.e., counting how many of the 16 scenarios each model had been evaluated on in the literature, then averaging). In the revised manuscript we will add an explicit paragraph in the evaluation section describing this survey methodology, the sources consulted, and the per-model counts that underlie the average. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's central claims consist of (1) a taxonomy and feasibility-based selection of scenarios/metrics with explicit documentation of gaps, (2) direct empirical measurements of 7 metrics across 16 core scenarios for 30 models, and (3) descriptive coverage statistics (e.g., prior 17.9% to 96.0% dense benchmarking). These are factual outputs of running the evaluations under standardized conditions, not quantities derived from or fitted to the results themselves. No equations, parameter fitting, self-citation chains, or uniqueness theorems appear in the derivation; the 25 findings are reported measurements rather than premises. The selection process is presented as an improvement over prior fragmentation with acknowledged incompleteness, rendering the evaluation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The contribution rests on the domain assumption that the chosen 16 scenarios and 7 metrics capture the most important dimensions despite acknowledged gaps, plus the practical selection of which 30 models and 42 scenarios to run under standardized conditions.

free parameters (2)
  • Choice of 16 core scenarios
    Selected from the taxonomy on the basis of coverage and feasibility rather than a formal optimality criterion.
  • Choice of 7 metrics
    accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity, efficiency; selected to balance breadth and measurability.
assumptions (1)
  • domain assumption Standardized evaluation conditions produce comparable and meaningful metric values across open, limited-access, and closed models.
    Invoked when claiming the 96% coverage improvement and the 25 top-level findings.

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Pith. "Pith review of Holistic Evaluation of Language Models." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/4PQYXXNT

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Holistic Evaluation of Language Models},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/4PQYXXNT}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2211.09110}
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Language models (LMs) are becoming the foundation for almost all major language technologies, but their capabilities, limitations, and risks are not well understood. We present Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) to improve the transparency of language models. First, we taxonomize the vast space of potential scenarios (i.e. use cases) and metrics (i.e. desiderata) that are of interest for LMs. Then we select a broad subset based on coverage and feasibility, noting what's missing or underrepresented (e.g. question answering for neglected English dialects, metrics for trustworthiness). Second, we adopt a multi-metric approach: We measure 7 metrics (accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity, and efficiency) for each of 16 core scenarios when possible (87.5% of the time). This ensures metrics beyond accuracy don't fall to the wayside, and that trade-offs are clearly exposed. We also perform 7 targeted evaluations, based on 26 targeted scenarios, to analyze specific aspects (e.g. reasoning, disinformation). Third, we conduct a large-scale evaluation of 30 prominent language models (spanning open, limited-access, and closed models) on all 42 scenarios, 21 of which were not previously used in mainstream LM evaluation. Prior to HELM, models on average were evaluated on just 17.9% of the core HELM scenarios, with some prominent models not sharing a single scenario in common. We improve this to 96.0%: now all 30 models have been densely benchmarked on the same core scenarios and metrics under standardized conditions. Our evaluation surfaces 25 top-level findings. For full transparency, we release all raw model prompts and completions publicly for further analysis, as well as a general modular toolkit. We intend for HELM to be a living benchmark for the community, continuously updated with new scenarios, metrics, and models.

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Figure 1. Language model. A language model takes text (a prompt) and generates text (a completion) probabilistically. Despite their simple interface, language models can be adapted to a wide range of language tasks from question answering to summarization. 1 Introduction Benchmarks orient AI. They encode values and priorities (Ethayarajh & Jurafsky, 2020; Birhane et al., 2022) that specify directions for the AI community to i… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. The importance of the taxonomy to HELM. Previous language model benchmarks (e.g. Su￾perGLUE, EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness, BIG-Bench) are collections of datasets, each with a standard task framing and canonical metric, usually accuracy (left). In comparison, in HELM we take a top-down approach of first explicitly stating what we want to evaluate (i.e. scenarios and metrics) by working through their underlying st… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Many metrics for each use case. In comparison to most prior benchmarks of language technologies, which primarily center accuracy and often relegate other desiderata to their own bespoke datasets (if at all), in HELM we take a multi-metric approach. This foregrounds metrics beyond accuracy and allows one to study the tradeoffs between the metrics. This multi-metric perspective conveys a position we take on evaluation… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Standardizing language model evaluation. Prior to our effort (top), the evaluation of language models was uneven. Several of our 16 core scenarios had no models evaluated on them, and only a few scenarios (e.g. BoolQ, HellaSwag) had a considerable number of models eval…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Evaluation components. Each evaluation run requires the specification of a scenario (what we want), a model with an adaptation process (how we get it), and one or more metrics (how good are the results). ,QVWDQFH ,QSXW :KLFKRIWKHIROORZLQJWHUPVGHVFULEHVWKH ERG\ VDELOLW\…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Adaptation. During adaptation, we construct a prompt for each evaluation instance which may include in-context training instances as well. Given decoding parameters, a language model generates a completion (in red). The multiple choice example is shown using two differ…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Scenario structure. Scenarios are what we want the language model to do. To specify a scenario, we break it down into a task, domain, and language, further subdividing the domain into properties of the text (what), speaker (who), and the time/circumstances (when). Exam…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Modern use cases for language models. An assortment of (largely novel/historically unexplored) potential use cases for language models. Figure sourced from https://beta.openai.com/ examples/. topics” of study in NLP at the time of writing.32 For each track, we map the …
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The world’s languages. Only a tiny percentage of the world’s languages are currently represented in language models. There are over 6,000 languages in the world, with estimates varying due to the inherent uncertainty of what constitutes a separate language (Nordhoff &…
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Example of information retrieval (passage ranking). An example instance for information retrieval from MS MARCO. We focus here on the passage ranking task: given a query q and a large corpus C of passages, systems must output a list of the top-k passages from C in dec…
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Example of sentiment analysis. An example instance for sentiment analysis from IMDB. news), particularly towards domains where there is greater demand for summaries (see Reiter, 2022). And we especially highlight that these two datasets have been the subject of critiq…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Example of toxicity detection. An example instance for toxicity detection from CivilCom￾ments. group membership as well as notions of social status and privilege, such that their interpretation causes disproportionate impact to members of marginalized groups (Welbl et…
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Calibration Metrics. A demonstration of how we measure calibration and selective classifica￾tion. The model probabilities refer to the probabilities the model assigns to its prediction. For simplicity, the figure uses 2 bins for ECE computation, but we use 10 bins in …
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Figure 18. Figure 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Fairness Perturbations. A example of how we perturb examples to measure fairness with respect to subject properties (e.g. the gender of the entities mentioned in the text). of transformed versions of existing datasets (generated by the authors of the original datasets…
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Bias Metrics. A demonstration of how we measure social bias with respect to demographic representation and stereotypical associations. do report performance disparities as a function of speaker properties (gender, nationality, spoken vs. written language) and subject …
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Toxicity Metrics. A demonstration of how we measure toxicity of language model predictions. These measures dependence on the cooccurence statistics of demographic words with these stereotyped terms across model generations (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_…
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Inference Efficiency Metrics. A demonstration of how we measure inference efficiency. We compute two metrics: denoised inference runtime and idealized inference runtime. F returns the runtime of encoding a prompt of given size, and g is the runtime of generating each …
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Prompt formatting. An example of how we structure and format the prompt for querying the language model. Parameter Language Modeling TruthfulQA CNN/DailyMail Prompt format §J.1: prompting-test §J.2: prompting-remainder Instructions None None Summarize the given docume…
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Accuracy vs. X. The relationship between accuracy (x-axis) and each of the 6 metrics (calibra￾tion, robustness, fairness, social bias, toxicity, efficiency) we study in this work across all core scenarios and for all models. For calibration error, we measure ECE-10; f…
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Correlation between metrics. The Pearson correlation between each metric and every other metric (x-axis). The small grey dots denote the correlation on each individual scenario. Trends are qualita￾tively similarly for other correlation measures (e.g. Spearman correlat…
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Head-to-head win rate per each model. We report the fraction of head-to-head comparisons between the given model and all other models, across all scenarios, where the given model is higher along the metric (e.g. more accurate in the accuracy subfigure). If a model was…
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Cumulative accuracy over time. The relationship between time (x-axis) and the accuracy of the most accurate model released up to that point (y-axis) across 16 core scenarios. That is, the graph tracks the progress in the state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy over time for …
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Accuracy as a function of model access. The relationship between access (open vs. limited vs. closed) and model accuracy for each of the 16 core scenarios. Shaded bars indicate the performance of the best model for that scenario, whereas the solid bars indicate the pe…
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Cumultative Scale vs. Accuracy. The relationship between model parameter size (x-axis) and the accuracy of the most accurate model released up to that scale on each core scenario. That is, the graph tracks the progress in the state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy as a func…
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Figure 30. Figure 30: The Pile loss vs. Accuracy. The relationship between log bits-per-byte (BPB) on The Pile and the accuracy on each core scenario. 54 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_30.png]
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Variance across seeds. For a subset of models and scenarios, we evaluate each scenario with three different random sets of in-context examples. We compute the range of the accuracy metric (maximum minus minimum value over the three random seeds) and visualize across m…
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Number of in-context examples. For each model, we set the maximum number of in-context examples to [0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16] and fit as many in-context examples as possible within the context window. We plot performance as a function of the average number of in-context exam…
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Multiple-choice adaptation. For each adaptation method (joint, separate, and separate calibrated), we compare models across scenarios. Formulation of multiple choice scenarios. Beyond the details of the prompt, we can conceptually imagine different ways to make use of…
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Figure 34. Figure 34: Metric spread for core scenarios. Metrics for every model on every core scenario as a means for indicating the spread on a per-metric basis. 8.3 Task-specific results for core scenarios Since we organize the 16 core scenarios by the broader task, we highlight findings…
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Figure 35. Figure 35: Robustness–equivariance via contrast sets. For the two scenarios where we have access to hand-crafted contrast sets, for each model, we plot the robustness of the model on that scenario (worst-case performance across perturbations of each instance) as a function of it…
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Figure 36. Figure 36: Targeted evaluation of language. Model accuracy on the four scenarios for evaluating linguistic understanding. 8.4 Targeted evaluations Language. To further explore the results for this targeted evaluation, see https://crfm.stanford.edu/ helm/v0.1.0/?group=language an…
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Figure 37. Figure 37: Targeted evaluation of knowledge. Model accuracy on the six scenarios (5 question answering, WikiFact) for evaluating knowledge acquisition. various downstream tasks, this may indicate either a con of instruction-tuning or an over-generalization of linguistic rules, e…
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Figure 38. Figure 38: Targeted evaluation of reasoning. Model accuracy on 12 scenarios (5 question answering, WikiFact) for evaluating reasoning capabilities. et al., 2021) and GSM8K (Cobbe et al., 2020) yielding low accuracies. Overall, we find code-davinci-002 is consistently the most ac…
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Figure 39. Figure 39: Targeted evaluation of copyright and memorization. Model performance on targeted evaluations for memorization for both copyrighted text and licensed code. 0.2 0.1 0.0 YaLM (100B) T5 (11B) ada (350M) J1-Jumbo v1 (178B) text-ada-001 Cohere large v20220720 (13.1B) text-c…
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Figure 40. Figure 40: Targeted evaluation of social bias. Model performance on targeted evaluations for bias on BBQ. 70 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p070_40.png]

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