Koala (HELM Instruct)

HELM Instruct scenario over 180 Koala user prompts, scored with a 1-5 Helpfulness critique rather than gold answers.

Also known as: Koala Eval, koala_test_set, Koala test dataset

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Categoryinstruction-following
SubcategoryHELM Instruct critique of 180 Koala user prompts
Page statusunknown
MetricHelpfulness
Directionhigher_is_better
Unit1-5
Dataset size180
Dataset licenceApache-2.0 (test-set LICENSE file); README additionally asks that the set not be used for training
PublisherBerkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), UC Berkeley (test set); Stanford CRFM (HELM scenario)

What it measures

koala, as this id, is HELM's KoalaScenario: the 180 English user prompts the BAIR Koala team used to human-evaluate their dialogue model. The model sees only the prompt and writes a free-form reply. There is no gold reference in the HELM instances. The skill is following a real web user's request (the test-set README says non-English and coding prompts were removed so raters could judge them). This is not the Koala-13B training mix, not Alpaca's 180 self-instruct eval queries, and not [self_instruct](self_instruct.md)'s 252 tasks.

Task format

Zero-shot generation. HELM downloads koala_test_set.jsonl and emits one TEST_SPLIT Instance per line with empty references. Adapter defaults from get_instruct_adapter_spec: max_tokens 512, temperature 0.7, max_train_instances 0. Run spec name is koala. HELM Instruct's blog states that scenarios with more than 100 instances are randomly sampled to 100 in that study.

Models reporting this benchmark

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Data

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