Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Falcon-40B

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12b and Falcon-40B specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
ProviderDatabricksTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index24.9—
Released2023-04-112023-03-15
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1712

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Falcon-40B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
LMArena Coding776—

Reasoning Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Falcon-40B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94104.04
HellaSwag70.8%85.3%
PIQA75.4%83%
WinoGrande61.8%76.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts804—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.1%
LAMBADA—77.3%

Math Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Falcon-40B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
LMArena Math871—
GSM8K—33.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Falcon-40B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%61.9%
BoolQ56.3%83.1%
MMLU26.2%56.9%
OpenBookQA39.2%56.6%
TriviaQA—79.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Falcon-40B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
LMArena Non-English836—
LMArena Chinese836—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Falcon-40B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
LMArena Instruction Following814—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Falcon-40B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bFalcon-40B
LMArena Text851—
LMArena Creative Writing864—
LMArena Multi-Turn740—

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Falcon-40B?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Falcon-40B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.

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