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HellaSwag Methodology — Methodology

HellaSwag tests commonsense sentence completion with adversarially filtered distractors.

Overview

What it measures: Commonsense plausibility — picking the most natural continuation of a short context.

How it works

  • ~10K validation items.
  • Each item: a context and 4 candidate completions.
  • Distractors filtered to be hard for prior models.

Strengths

Cheap and well-established

Limitations

  • Saturated
  • Limited reasoning depth

Best use cases

Sanity-check eval for small models

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Frequently asked questions

What does HellaSwag measure?

Commonsense plausibility — picking the most natural continuation of a short context.

What are its main limitations?

Saturated Limited reasoning depth

When should I use this benchmark?

Sanity-check eval for small models