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"Navigating the Complexities of Benchmarking Language Models with Personal Data"

Feb 15, 2024 - 11:26am

Comment: deleted from twitter, mainly because i want to test more with gemini 1.5 before explicitly making criticism. however i do notice shortcomings in gpt4 right now. the internet tends to like hype and not always the reality of how something works. or maybe i dont know shit

Caption: Reflecting on the challenges and nuances of benchmarking language models with personal data

Description: The content shows three separate tweets from a Twitter user with the handle @cj_pais. The tweets express thoughts about benchmarking context windows for language models and mention a metaphorical 'needle in a haystack' approach. The user discusses experiences with inputting personal data into GPT4, noting failures when the language model processes large amounts of data at once. They observe better results when breaking down the problem into smaller chunks. Possible issues with GPT's handling of JSON versus plaintext are also mentioned, and the user suggests defining tasks more concretely for benchmarking purposes.The content shows three separate tweets from a Twitter user with the handle @cj_pais. The tweets express thoughts about benchmarking context windows for language models and mention a metaphorical 'needle in a haystack' approach. The user discusses experiences with inputting personal data into GPT4, noting failures when the language model processes large amounts of data at once. They observe better results when breaking down the problem into smaller chunks. Possible issues with GPT's handling of JSON versus plaintext are also mentioned, and the user suggests defining tasks more concretely for benchmarking purposes.

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cj @cj_pais

i think benchmarking context windows with the "needle in a haystack" approach is a good first step, but needs improvement

specifically, i want the LLM to be able to cognize over the context window, not just pull a fact out

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cj @cj_pais

i notice failures when giving GPT4 a large amount of my personal data and asking: "what did i eat every day this week"

breaking the problem down into smaller chunks and feeding into context window has near perfect results, but doing it all at once get's 4/7 days

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cj @cj_pais

perhaps gpt's understanding of json is worse than plaintext which is leading to this result

i would like to define this task more concretely to be able to benchmark for it. the needle in a haystack is brilliant in because its very easy to benchmark

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