ZeroSCROLLS: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Long Text Understanding
Uri Shaham, Maor Ivgi, Avia Efrat, Jonathan Berant, Omer Levy
Abstract
We introduce ZeroSCROLLS, a zero-shot benchmark for natural language understanding over long texts, which contains only test and small validation sets, without training data. We adapt six tasks from the SCROLLS benchmark, and add four new datasets, including two novel information fusing tasks, such as aggregating the percentage of positive reviews. Using ZeroSCROLLS, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both open-source and closed large language models, finding that Claude outperforms ChatGPT, and that GPT-4 achieves the highest average score. However, there is still room for improvement on multiple open challenges in ZeroSCROLLS, such as aggregation tasks, where models struggle to pass the naive baseline. As the state of the art is a moving target, we invite researchers to evaluate their ideas on the live ZeroSCROLLS leaderboard.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.findings-emnlp.536
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7977–7989
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.536
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.536
- Cite (ACL):
- Uri Shaham, Maor Ivgi, Avia Efrat, Jonathan Berant, and Omer Levy. 2023. ZeroSCROLLS: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Long Text Understanding. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 7977–7989, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- ZeroSCROLLS: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Long Text Understanding (Shaham et al., Findings 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.findings-emnlp.536.pdf