Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference

核心概念

The author introduces Chatbot Arena as an open platform for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) based on human preferences, employing a pairwise comparison approach and crowdsourcing. The platform has gained credibility and recognition in the LLM field.

摘要

Chatbot Arena is an open platform designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) based on human preferences through crowdsourcing. The platform employs statistical methods to rank models efficiently and accurately, with over 240K votes collected from users in various languages. It has become a benchmark in the industry for evaluating user preferences and model performance.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have expanded capabilities beyond traditional boundaries, leading to concerns about performance evaluation. Current benchmarks lack the nuanced aspects of real-world tasks, prompting the need for an open evaluation platform like Chatbot Arena. The platform's methodology involves diverse user prompts and efficient ranking systems using statistical techniques.
The study analyzes user prompts through topic modeling, demonstrating their effectiveness in distinguishing model strengths across various domains. Validation of vote quality shows high agreement rates between crowd-users and experts, confirming the reliability of crowdsourced data. Experiments on ranking systems and outlier detection highlight the efficiency and accuracy of Chatbot Arena's evaluation process.
Future directions include developing comprehensive leaderboards for different topics and expanding evaluations to multimodal LLMs in dynamic settings. The study acknowledges limitations in user bias and safety evaluations while proposing improvements using advanced statistical methods for detecting harmful users.

統計資料

Over 240K votes collected from users since April 2023.
100K pairwise preference votes will be released for future research.
600 clusters identified covering various topics.
High agreement rates between crowd-users, experts, and GPT-4 judge.
Detection method effective with up to 90% true positive rate.

引述

"Our demo is publicly available at https://chat.lmsys.org."
"Chatbot Arena has emerged as one of the most referenced LLM leaderboards."
"We commit to making our data and code available, ensuring that this platform is open-source."

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Chatbot Arena

by Wei-Lin Chia... 於 arxiv.org 03-08-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04132.pdf

深入探究

How does Chatbot Arena address potential biases in its user base?

Chatbot Arena addresses potential biases in its user base by acknowledging that the user base may primarily consist of LLM hobbyists and researchers. To mitigate this bias, they aim to diversify their user pool by encouraging a wide range of users to participate. Additionally, they recognize the limitations of data predominantly coming from their online chat interface and plan to expand into more dynamic settings to capture real-world usage accurately.

What are the implications of overlooking safety aspects in evaluating LLMs?

Overlooking safety aspects in evaluating LLMs can have significant consequences. It could lead to the deployment of models with harmful behaviors or unintended consequences, posing risks to users and society at large. Neglecting safety evaluations can result in biased outputs, misinformation dissemination, privacy breaches, or even malicious use cases. Therefore, ensuring robust safety assessments is crucial for responsible AI development and deployment.

How can advanced statistical methods enhance outlier detection in Chatbot Arena?

Advanced statistical methods can enhance outlier detection in Chatbot Arena by providing more sophisticated techniques for identifying anomalous behavior among users. By leveraging nonnegative supermartingales and E-values, these methods offer a formal framework for detecting outliers based on rigorous statistical principles rather than ad-hoc rules. These approaches improve power and accuracy in identifying abnormal patterns or activities within the dataset while minimizing false positives or negatives.