PaLM 2 Technical Report

17 May 2023  ยท  Rohan Anil, Andrew M. Dai, Orhan Firat, Melvin Johnson, Dmitry Lepikhin, Alexandre Passos, Siamak Shakeri, Emanuel Taropa, Paige Bailey, Zhifeng Chen, Eric Chu, Jonathan H. Clark, Laurent El Shafey, Yanping Huang, Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Gaurav Mishra, Erica Moreira, Mark Omernick, Kevin Robinson, Sebastian Ruder, Yi Tay, Kefan Xiao, Yuanzhong Xu, Yujing Zhang, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Junwhan Ahn, Jacob Austin, Paul Barham, Jan Botha, James Bradbury, Siddhartha Brahma, Kevin Brooks, Michele Catasta, Yong Cheng, Colin Cherry, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Clรฉment Crepy, Shachi Dave, Mostafa Dehghani, Sunipa Dev, Jacob Devlin, Mark Dรญaz, Nan Du, Ethan Dyer, Vlad Feinberg, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Vlad Fienber, Markus Freitag, Xavier Garcia, Sebastian Gehrmann, Lucas Gonzalez, Guy Gur-Ari, Steven Hand, Hadi Hashemi, Le Hou, Joshua Howland, Andrea Hu, Jeffrey Hui, Jeremy Hurwitz, Michael Isard, Abe Ittycheriah, Matthew Jagielski, Wenhao Jia, Kathleen Kenealy, Maxim Krikun, Sneha Kudugunta, Chang Lan, Katherine Lee, Benjamin Lee, Eric Li, Music Li, Wei Li, Yaguang Li, Jian Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Hanzhao Lin, Zhongtao Liu, Frederick Liu, Marcello Maggioni, Aroma Mahendru, Joshua Maynez, Vedant Misra, Maysam Moussalem, Zachary Nado, John Nham, Eric Ni, Andrew Nystrom, Alicia Parrish, Marie Pellat, Martin Polacek, Alex Polozov, Reiner Pope, Siyuan Qiao, Emily Reif, Bryan Richter, Parker Riley, Alex Castro Ros, Aurko Roy, Brennan Saeta, Rajkumar Samuel, Renee Shelby, Ambrose Slone, Daniel Smilkov, David R. So, Daniel Sohn, Simon Tokumine, Dasha Valter, Vijay Vasudevan, Kiran Vodrahalli, Xuezhi Wang, Pidong Wang, ZiRui Wang, Tao Wang, John Wieting, Yuhuai Wu, Kelvin Xu, Yunhan Xu, Linting Xue, Pengcheng Yin, Jiahui Yu, Qiao Zhang, Steven Zheng, Ce Zheng, Weikang Zhou, Denny Zhou, Slav Petrov, Yonghui Wu ยท

We introduce PaLM 2, a new state-of-the-art language model that has better multilingual and reasoning capabilities and is more compute-efficient than its predecessor PaLM. PaLM 2 is a Transformer-based model trained using a mixture of objectives. Through extensive evaluations on English and multilingual language, and reasoning tasks, we demonstrate that PaLM 2 has significantly improved quality on downstream tasks across different model sizes, while simultaneously exhibiting faster and more efficient inference compared to PaLM. This improved efficiency enables broader deployment while also allowing the model to respond faster, for a more natural pace of interaction. PaLM 2 demonstrates robust reasoning capabilities exemplified by large improvements over PaLM on BIG-Bench and other reasoning tasks. PaLM 2 exhibits stable performance on a suite of responsible AI evaluations, and enables inference-time control over toxicity without additional overhead or impact on other capabilities. Overall, PaLM 2 achieves state-of-the-art performance across a diverse set of tasks and capabilities. When discussing the PaLM 2 family, it is important to distinguish between pre-trained models (of various sizes), fine-tuned variants of these models, and the user-facing products that use these models. In particular, user-facing products typically include additional pre- and post-processing steps. Additionally, the underlying models may evolve over time. Therefore, one should not expect the performance of user-facing products to exactly match the results reported in this report.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
Training Data
Result Benchmark
Natural Language Inference ANLI test PaLM 2-S (one-shot) A1 53.1 # 10
A2 48.8 # 16
A3 53.2 # 12
Natural Language Inference ANLI test PaLM 2-L (one-shot) A1 73.1 # 4
A2 63.4 # 6
A3 67.1 # 4
Natural Language Inference ANLI test PaLM 2-M (one-shot) A1 58.1 # 9
A2 49.5 # 15
A3 54.5 # 10
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Challenge) PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 59.6 # 20
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Challenge) PaLM 2 (few-shot, CoT, SC) Accuracy 95.1 # 2
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Challenge) PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 64.9 # 17
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Challenge) PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 69.2 # 14
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Easy) PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 85.6 # 5
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Easy) PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 89.7 # 2
Common Sense Reasoning ARC (Easy) PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 88.0 # 3
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Causal Judgment) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 62.0 # 1
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Causal Judgment) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 58.8 # 3
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Date Understanding) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 74.0 # 2
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Date Understanding) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 91.2 # 1
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Disambiguation QA) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 77.6 # 2
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Disambiguation QA) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 78.8 # 1
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Formal Fallacies Syllogisms Negation) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 64.8 # 1
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Formal Fallacies Syllogisms Negation) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 57.2 # 2
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Hyperbaton) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 84.8 # 5
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Hyperbaton) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 82.4 # 6
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Logic Grid Puzzle) PaLM-540B (few-shot, k=5) Accuracy 42.4 # 2
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Logic Grid Puzzle) PaLM-62B (few-shot, k=5) Accuracy 36.5 # 3
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Movie Recommendation) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 94.4 # 1
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Movie Recommendation) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 93.6 # 2
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Navigate) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 91.2 # 1
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Navigate) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 68.8 # 2
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Penguins In A Table) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 84.9 # 1
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Penguins In A Table) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 65.8 # 2
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Reasoning About Colored Objects) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 91.2 # 1
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Reasoning About Colored Objects) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 61.2 # 2
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Ruin Names) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 83.6 # 2
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) BIG-bench (Ruin Names) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 90 # 1
Sarcasm Detection BIG-bench (SNARKS) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 78.7 # 2
Sarcasm Detection BIG-bench (SNARKS) PaLM 2(few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 84.8 # 1
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Sports Understanding) PaLM 2(few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 98 # 1
Common Sense Reasoning BIG-bench (Sports Understanding) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 90.8 # 2
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Temporal Sequences) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, CoT) Accuracy 100 # 1
Logical Reasoning BIG-bench (Temporal Sequences) PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=3, Direct) Accuracy 96.4 # 2
Question Answering BoolQ PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 88.6 # 9
Question Answering BoolQ PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 88.1 # 11
Question Answering BoolQ PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 90.9 # 5
Toxic Comment Classification Civil Comments PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=10) AUROC 0.8535 # 16
Toxic Comment Classification Civil Comments PaLM 2 (zero-shot) AUROC 0.7596 # 17
Natural Language Inference CommitmentBank PaLM 2-M (one-shot) Accuracy 80.4 # 12
Natural Language Inference CommitmentBank PaLM 2-L (one-shot) Accuracy 87.5 # 10
Natural Language Inference CommitmentBank PaLM 2-S (one-shot) Accuracy 82.1 # 11
Common Sense Reasoning CommonsenseQA PaLM 2 (fewโ€‘shot, CoT, SC) Accuracy 90.4 # 2
Question Answering COPA PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 90.0 # 18
Question Answering COPA PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 89.0 # 20
Question Answering COPA PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 96.0 # 8
Question Answering DROP Test PaLM 2 (few-shot) F1 85.0 # 3
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Mainland) PaLM 2 BLEURT 74.4 # 1
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Mainland) PaLM BLEURT 70.3 # 3
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Mainland) Google Translate BLEURT 72.3 # 2
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Taiwan) Google Translate BLEURT 68.5 # 3
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Taiwan) PaLM 2 BLEURT 72.0 # 1
Machine Translation FRMT (Chinese - Taiwan) PaLM BLEURT 68.6 # 2
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Brazil) Google Translate BLEURT 80.2 # 2
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Brazil) PaLM 2 BLEURT 81.1 # 1
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Brazil) PaLM BLEURT 78.5 # 3
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Portugal) PaLM 2 BLEURT 78.3 # 1
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Portugal) Google Translate BLEURT 75.3 # 3
Machine Translation FRMT (Portuguese - Portugal) PaLM BLEURT 76.1 # 2
Arithmetic Reasoning GSM8K PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=8, CoT) Accuracy 80.7 # 60
Arithmetic Reasoning GSM8K PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=8, SC) Accuracy 91.0 # 19
Sentence Completion HellaSwag PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 86.7 # 14
Sentence Completion HellaSwag PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 87.4 # 12
Sentence Completion HellaSwag PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 85.6 # 18
Language Modelling LAMBADA PaLM 2-S (one-shot) Accuracy 80.7 # 11
Language Modelling LAMBADA PaLM 2-M (one-shot) Accuracy 83.7 # 6
Language Modelling LAMBADA PaLM 2-L (one-shot) Accuracy 86.9 # 2
Math Word Problem Solving MATH PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=4, CoT) Accuracy 34.3 # 51
Math Word Problem Solving MATH PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=4, SC) Accuracy 48.8 # 29
Code Generation MBPP PaLM 2-S* (few-shot) Accuracy 50 # 45
Multi-task Language Understanding MGSM PaLM 2 (8-shot, CoT) Average (%) 72.2 # 2
Multi-task Language Understanding MGSM PaLM 2 (few-shot, k=8, SC) Average (%) 87.0 # 1
Multi-task Language Understanding MMLU Flan-PaLM 2-L Average (%) 81.2 # 8
Multi-task Language Understanding MMLU PaLM 2-L (5-shot) Average (%) 78.3 # 12
Question Answering MultiRC PaLM 2-S (one-shot) F1 84.0 # 10
Question Answering MultiRC PaLM 2-L (one-shot) F1 88.2 # 4
Question Answering MultiRC PaLM 2-M (one-shot) F1 84.1 # 9
Question Answering Natural Questions PaLM 2-L (one-shot) EM 37.5 # 20
Question Answering Natural Questions PaLM 2-M (one-shot) EM 32.0 # 25
Question Answering Natural Questions PaLM 2-S (one-shot) EM 25.3 # 33
Question Answering OpenBookQA PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 58.5 # 26
Question Answering OpenBookQA PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 56.2 # 30
Question Answering OpenBookQA PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 57.4 # 28
Question Answering PIQA PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 85.0 # 8
Question Answering PIQA PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 83.2 # 10
Question Answering PIQA PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 82.2 # 16
Common Sense Reasoning ReCoRD PaLM 2-S (one-shot) F1 92.1 # 9
Common Sense Reasoning ReCoRD PaLM 2-L (one-shot) F1 93.8 # 6
Common Sense Reasoning ReCoRD PaLM 2-M (one-shot) F1 92.4 # 7
Natural Language Inference RTE PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 78.7% # 41
Natural Language Inference RTE PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 79.3% # 39
Natural Language Inference RTE PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 81.9% # 33
Question Answering Story Cloze PaLM 2-M (one-shot) Accuracy 86.7 # 4
Question Answering Story Cloze PaLM 2-S (one-shot) Accuracy 85.6 # 5
Question Answering Story Cloze PaLM 2-L (one-shot) Accuracy 87.4 # 3
Question Answering StrategyQA PaLM 2 (few-shot, CoT, SC) Accuracy 90.4 # 1
Question Answering TriviaQA PaLM 2-M (one-shot) EM 81.7 # 6
Question Answering TriviaQA PaLM 2-L (one-shot) EM 86.1 # 4
Question Answering TriviaQA PaLM 2-S (one-shot) EM 75.2 # 15
Cross-Lingual Question Answering TyDiQA-GoldP PaLM 2-S (one-shot) F1 73.3 # 4
Cross-Lingual Question Answering TyDiQA-GoldP PaLM 2-L (one-shot) F1 73.6 # 3
Cross-Lingual Question Answering TyDiQA-GoldP PaLM 2-M (one-shot) F1 73.3 # 4
Question Answering WebQuestions PaLM 2-L (one-shot) EM 28.2 # 11
Question Answering WebQuestions PaLM 2-S (one-shot) EM 21.8 # 15
Question Answering WebQuestions PaLM 2-M (one-shot) EM 26.9 # 12
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 86.9 # 14
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 84.6 # 17
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 88.1 # 13
Common Sense Reasoning WinoGrande PaLM 2-S (1-shot) Accuracy 77.9 # 17
Common Sense Reasoning WinoGrande PaLM 2-L (1-shot) Accuracy 83.0 # 10
Common Sense Reasoning WinoGrande PaLM 2-M (1-shot) Accuracy 79.2 # 15
Word Sense Disambiguation Words in Context PaLM 2-L (one-shot) Accuracy 66.8 # 13
Word Sense Disambiguation Words in Context PaLM 2-S (one-shot) Accuracy 50.6 # 31
Word Sense Disambiguation Words in Context PaLM 2-M (one-shot) Accuracy 52.0 # 28
Cross-Lingual Transfer XCOPA PaLM 2 (few-shot) Accuracy 94.4 # 1
Text Summarization X-Sum PaLM 2-M (one-shot) ROUGE-2 17.2 # 9
Text Summarization X-Sum PaLM 2-L (one-shot) ROUGE-2 23.2 # 6
Text Summarization X-Sum PaLM 2-S (one-shot) ROUGE-2 16.9 # 10

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