Building the Ed-O-Meter: Notes on Writing My Own LLM Benchmark

3 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by Bluestein

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os360

10 hours ago

Here's the best benchmark I've found, one that isn't remotely saturated:

Take a recent paper or chapter(s) from a recent book that you are very familiar with and ask the LLM to create a 50-item multiple choice test on the provided information with an answer key at the bottom. Every LLM I've tried has failed. Notable:

- DeepSeek's sparse attention is genuine. It skips paragraphs and pages, then gets very confused when the skipped items are referenced. - Training data almost always overrides contextual data, which often profoundly perverts the results when the two disagree.

The essential question for any benchmark is to ask whether you are modes of success (to justify investment) or failure (to identify architectural limitations). You be the judge: how do you want your tests biased?