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Figure 11: Evolution of Llama 2-Chat. We show the evolution after multiple iterations fine-tuning for the
win-rate % of Llama 2-Chat compared to ChatGPT. Left: the judge is our reward model, which may favor
our model, and right, the judge is GPT-4, which should be more neutral.
on diverse open-source Reward Modeling datasets. We have not yet observed any such divergence, and
hypothesize that iterative model updates may be helping to prevent this.
As a last verification step to ensure no regression between our new model and the previous one, we use both
to sample during the next annotation iteration. This enables a model comparison “for free” on new prompts
and can help to increase diversity when sampling.
Progression of Models. Figure 11 reports the progress of our different SFT and then RLHF versions for
both Safety and Helpfulness axes, measured by our in-house Safety and Helpfulness reward models. On
this set of evaluations, we outperform ChatGPT on both axes after RLHF-V3 (harmlessness and helpfulness
>50%). Despite the aforementioned relevance of using our reward as a point-wise metric, it can arguably be
biased in favor of Llama 2-Chat. Therefore, for a fair comparison, we additionally compute the final results
using GPT-4 to assess which generation is preferred. The order in which ChatGPT and Llama 2-Chat outputs
appeared in GPT-4 prompt are randomly swapped to avoid any bias. As expected, the win-rate in favor of
Llama 2-Chat is less pronounced, although obtaining more than a 60% win-rate for our latest Llama 2-Chat.
The prompts correspond to a validation set of 1, 586 and 584 prompts for safety and helpfulness, respectively.
3.4.2 Human Evaluation
Human evaluation is often considered the gold standard for judging models for natural language generation,
including dialogue models. To evaluate the quality of major model versions, we asked human evaluators to
rate them on helpfulness and safety. We compare the Llama 2-Chat models to open-source models (Falcon,
MPT MosaicML NLP Team et al. (2023), Vicuna Chiang et al. (2023), as well as closed-source models (Chat-
GPT (OpenAI, 2023) and PaLM Anil et al. (2023)) on over 4, 000 single and multi-turn prompts. For ChatGPT,
we use gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 model in all generations. For PaLM, we use the chat-bison-001 model in all
generations. The final prompt count for human evaluations for each model is shown in Table 32. See more
methodology details in Appendix, Section A.3.7. The following section shows helpfulness results; safety
results are presented in Section 4.4.
Results. As shown in Figure 12, Llama 2-Chat models outperform open-source models by a significant
margin on both single turn and multi-turn prompts. Particularly, Llama 2-Chat 7B model outperforms
MPT-7B-chat on 60% of the prompts. Llama 2-Chat 34B has an overall win rate of more than 75% against
equivalently sized Vicuna-33B and Falcon 40B models.
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