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What do core LLM Benchmarks (MMLU, GSM8K, HumanEval, MATH) evaluate?
❓ Interview Prompt: Explain standardized LLM benchmark evaluation suites, metrics, pass@1 scores, and data contamination risks.
Standardized benchmarks evaluate model capabilities across different domain tasks:
Core Benchmarks:
1
MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding): 57 multiple-choice subjects (humanities, STEM, social sciences) testing general world knowledge.
2
GSM8K (Grade School Math 8K): 8,500 grade-school math word problems testing multi-step arithmetic reasoning.
3
HumanEval: 164 Python coding challenges measuring code synthesis correctness using pass@1 unit test execution.
4
MATH: Advanced high-school and competition math problems.
Contamination Warning:
If benchmark test questions leak into a model's pre-training data, benchmark scores become artificially inflated.
Code Implementation Example
typescript
// Pass@1 metric calculation concept
function calculatePassAtOne(testResults: boolean[]): number {
const passed = testResults.filter(Boolean).length;
return Number((passed / testResults.length * 100).toFixed(1));
}
console.log('HumanEval Pass@1 Score:', calculatePassAtOne([true, true, false, true]), '%'); // 75%💡Calculating pass@1 metric score for coding benchmarks.
🎯 Interview Key Takeaway
MMLU measures general knowledge, GSM8K measures math reasoning, and HumanEval measures coding correctness via unit tests.
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