HelpSteer: Multi-attribute Helpfulness Dataset for SteerLM

Zhilin Wang, Yi Dong, Jiaqi Zeng, Virginia Adams, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Daniel Egert, Olivier Delalleau, Jane Scowcroft, Neel Kant, Aidan Swope, Oleksii Kuchaiev


Abstract
Existing open-source helpfulness preference datasets do not specify what makes some responses more helpful and others less so. Models trained on these datasets can incidentally learn to model dataset artifacts (e.g. preferring longer but unhelpful responses only due to their length). To alleviate this problem, we collect HelpSteer, a multi-attribute helpfulness dataset annotated for the various aspects that make responses helpful. Specifically, our 37k-sample dataset has annotations for correctness, coherence, complexity, and verbosity in addition to overall helpfulness of responses. Training Llama 2 70B using the HelpSteer dataset with SteerLM technique produces a model that scores 7.54 on MT Bench, which is currently the highest score for open models that do not require training data from more powerful models (e.g. GPT-4). We release this dataset with CC-BY-4.0 license at https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/HelpSteer
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2024.naacl-long.185
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, Steven Bethard
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3371–3384
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.185
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10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.185
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Zhilin Wang, Yi Dong, Jiaqi Zeng, Virginia Adams, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Daniel Egert, Olivier Delalleau, Jane Scowcroft, Neel Kant, Aidan Swope, and Oleksii Kuchaiev. 2024. HelpSteer: Multi-attribute Helpfulness Dataset for SteerLM. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3371–3384, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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