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Model Style not-a-Bench

A tool for quickly eyeballing the stylistic choices of various LLMs side by side, focused on models at 4-bit quantization under 100GB of weights, as a qualitative alternative to benchmark-driven model comparison.

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Recent LLMs score highly on benchmarks yet disappoint on simple tasks or sanity checks, and benchmarks reveal nothing about the models' stylistic choices.

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  1. Model Style not-a-Bench

    A tool for quickly eyeballing the stylistic choices of various LLMs side by side, focused on models at 4-bit quantization under 100GB of weights, as a qualitative alternative to benchmark-driven model comparison.

    Problem: Recent LLMs score highly on benchmarks yet disappoint on simple tasks or sanity checks, and benchmarks reveal nothing about the models' stylistic choices.

    Posted by @techsystems · Original comment ↗

    “So I made 'Model Style not-a-Bench' to be able to quickly eyeball various LLMs, most preferably at 4-bit quants, under 100GB weights (excluding storage offloads like Qwen Flash Next's approach).”