People frequently ask me how many tasks a benchmark should have. There's no exact answer but here's my intuition- (tl;dr aim for 300-500 tasks)
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Ofir Press@OfirPress
I just put this in my updated guide on how to build good LM benchmarks: https://ofir.io/How-to-Build-Good-Language-Modeling-Benchmarks/
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People frequently ask me how many tasks a benchmark should have. There's no exact answer but here's my intuition- (tl;dr aim for 300-500 tasks)
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David Petrou@dpetrou
@OfirPress that's matches what i've seen.
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