InFoBench
Cohere Command A 94.9% Models follow 500 instructions that are split into 2,250 yes or no requirement questions. A judge answers each question, and the score is the share met.
The metric is the Decomposed Requirements Following Ratio (DRFR). GPT-4 is the usual judge.
- Made by
- Tencent AI Lab (Qin et al.)
- Released
- January 2024
- Kind
- Following precise instructions
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- All public
- Last in a system card
- April 2025
- Last model added
- April 2025
In the authors’ words
This paper introduces the Decomposed Requirements Following Ratio (DRFR), a new metric for evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to follow instructions. Addressing a gap in current methodologies, DRFR breaks down complex instructions into simpler criteria, facilitating a detailed analysis of LLMs' compliance with various aspects of tasks. Alongside this metric, we present InFoBench, a benchmark comprising 500 diverse instructions and 2,250 decomposed questions across multiple constraint categories. Our experiments compare DRFR with traditional scoring methods and explore annotation sources, including human experts, crowd-sourced workers, and GPT-4. The findings demonstrate DRFR's higher reliability and the effectiveness of using GPT-4 as a cost-efficient annotator. The evaluation of several advanced LLMs using this framework reveals their strengths and areas needing improvement, particularly in complex instruction-following. This study contributes a novel metric and benchmark, offering insights for future LLM development and evaluation.
Cohere Command A leads with 94.9%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cohere Command A | 94.9% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card |
Cohere’s own number for Cohere Command A passed 85% in April 2025
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
One system card reports it
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2025 | Cohere Command A technical report | 94.9 | InFoBench, GPT-4o judge (Table 3) | Capabilities |
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