Russian SuperGLUE 1.1: Revising the Lessons not Learned by Russian NLP models

TL;DR

Russian SuperGLUE 1.1 is an updated benchmark for evaluating Russian NLP models, incorporating new tasks, improved evaluation tools, and integration with industrial assessment frameworks to better measure model understanding and performance.

Contribution

The paper introduces Russian SuperGLUE 1.1 with new tasks, methodological improvements, and enhanced evaluation tools, addressing previous vulnerabilities and supporting recent models.

Findings

Enhanced benchmark with new understanding tasks

Improved evaluation toolkit supporting latest models

Integration with industrial evaluation framework

Abstract

In the last year, new neural architectures and multilingual pre-trained models have been released for Russian, which led to performance evaluation problems across a range of language understanding tasks. This paper presents Russian SuperGLUE 1.1, an updated benchmark styled after GLUE for Russian NLP models. The new version includes a number of technical, user experience and methodological improvements, including fixes of the benchmark vulnerabilities unresolved in the previous version: novel and improved tests for understanding the meaning of a word in context (RUSSE) along with reading comprehension and common sense reasoning (DaNetQA, RuCoS, MuSeRC). Together with the release of the updated datasets, we improve the benchmark toolkit based on \texttt{jiant} framework for consistent training and evaluation of NLP-models of various architectures which now supports the most recent models for Russian. Finally, we provide the integration of Russian SuperGLUE with a framework for industrial evaluation of the open-source models, MOROCCO (MOdel ResOurCe COmparison), in which the models are evaluated according to the weighted average metric over all tasks, the inference speed, and the occupied amount of RAM. Russian SuperGLUE is publicly available at https://russiansuperglue.com/.