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Evaluation of Instruction-Following Ability for Large Language Models on Story-Ending Generation

Computation and Language 2024-06-25 v1

Abstract

Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across various benchmark tasks. While providing instructions to LLMs for guiding their generations is user-friendly, assessing their instruction-following capabilities is still unclarified due to a lack of evaluation metrics. In this paper, we focus on evaluating the instruction-following ability of LLMs in the context of story-ending generation, which requires diverse and context-specific instructions. We propose an automatic evaluation pipeline that utilizes a machine reading comprehension (MRC) model to determine whether the generated story-ending reflects instruction. Our findings demonstrate that our proposed metric aligns with human evaluation. Furthermore, our experiments confirm that recent open-source LLMs can achieve instruction-following performance close to GPT-3.5, as assessed through automatic evaluation.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16356,
  title  = {Evaluation of Instruction-Following Ability for Large Language Models on Story-Ending Generation},
  author = {Rem Hida and Junki Ohmura and Toshiyuki Sekiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16356},
  year   = {2024}
}