Joshua Harris


2025

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Are We Done with MMLU?
Aryo Pradipta Gema | Joshua Ong Jun Leang | Giwon Hong | Alessio Devoto | Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino | Rohit Saxena | Xuanli He | Yu Zhao | Xiaotang Du | Mohammad Reza Ghasemi Madani | Claire Barale | Robert McHardy | Joshua Harris | Jean Kaddour | Emile Van Krieken | Pasquale Minervini
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Maybe not. We identify and analyse errors in the popular Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark. Even though MMLU is widely adopted, our analysis demonstrates numerous ground truth errors that obscure the true capabilities of LLMs. For example, we find that 57% of the analysed questions in the Virology subset contain errors. To address this issue, we introduce a comprehensive framework for identifying dataset errors using a novel error annotation protocol. Then, we create MMLU-Redux, which is a subset of 5,700 manually re-annotated questions across all 57 MMLU subjects. Using MMLU-Redux, we demonstrate significant discrepancies with the model performance metrics that were originally reported. Our results strongly advocate for revising MMLU’s error-ridden questions to enhance its future utility and reliability as a benchmark. Therefore, we open up MMLU-Redux for additional annotation.