Benchmark Almanac

CommonsenseQA 2.0

T5-11B 67.8% leads since January 2022
Not in model cards

Models answer 14,343 yes or no commonsense questions that players wrote to fool an AI in a game. Scored by accuracy.

Released
January 2022
Kind
Commonsense
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 #208 on the capability index
Last model added
July 2023
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

Constructing benchmarks that test the abilities of modern natural language understanding models is difficult - pre-trained language models exploit artifacts in benchmarks to achieve human parity, but still fail on adversarial examples and make errors that demonstrate a lack of common sense. In this work, we propose gamification as a framework for data construction. The goal of players in the game is to compose questions that mislead a rival AI while using specific phrases for extra points. The game environment leads to enhanced user engagement and simultaneously gives the game designer control over the collected data, allowing us to collect high-quality data at scale. Using our method we create CommonsenseQA 2.0, which includes 14,343 yes/no questions, and demonstrate its difficulty for models that are orders-of-magnitude larger than the AI used in the game itself. Our best baseline, the T5-based Unicorn with 11B parameters achieves an accuracy of 70.2%, substantially higher than GPT-3 (52.9%) in a few-shot inference setup. Both score well below human performance which is at 94.1%.

Abstract of CommonsenseQA 2.0: Exposing the Limits of AI through Gamification (arXiv:2201.05320, CC0)
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Models scored in claims Epoch AI collected

T5-11B leads with 67.8% among models released by July 2023

Best score per model from claims Epoch AI collected out of labs’ reports and papers. Nobody independent has run this benchmark, so these show what was claimed, not who leads.

The newest model with a score here came out in July 2023, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 T5-11B 67.8%
  2. 2 T5-3B 60.2%
  3. 3 GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 57%
  4. 4 T5-Large 54.6%
  5. 5 InstructGPT 175B 52.9%
  6. 6 Llama 2-70B 50%

Source: Another board, via Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 T5-11B 67.8% Oct 2019 Claim in CommonsenseQA 2.0: Exposing the Limits of AI through Gami…, via Epoch AI
2 T5-3B 60.2% Oct 2019 Claim in Decker: Double Check with Heterogeneous Knowledge for Com…, via Epoch AI
3 GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 57% Jun 2023 Claim in arxiv.org, via Epoch AI
4 T5-Large 54.6% Claim in CommonsenseQA 2.0: Exposing the Limits of AI through Gami…, via Epoch AI
5 InstructGPT 175B 52.9% Jan 2022 Claim in CommonsenseQA 2.0: Exposing the Limits of AI through Gami…, via Epoch AI
6 Llama 2-70B 50% Jul 2023 Claim in arxiv.org, via Epoch AI

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

A claim Epoch AI collected from a report or paper
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2020 2021 2022 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) Random guessing T5-11B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2020 2021 2022 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) Random guessing T5-11B

Source: Claims collected by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

Versions

We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.

Other labs Google DeepMind
CommonsenseQA 2.0 Not tested since Jul 2023
T5-11B 67.8%
CommonSenseQA Passed 85% in May 2023, by PaLM 2-L
PaLM 2-L 90.4%
CommonsenseQA 2.0 Not tested since Jul 2023
T5-11B 67.8%

Sources: Labs’ model cards and claims collected by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

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