Conversation and Chatbot Benchmarks

Conversation quality benchmarks evaluate LLMs’ ability to engage in meaningful, coherent, and helpful dialogues. These benchmarks test conversational skills, context understanding, and response appropriateness across various interaction scenarios.

Overview

These benchmarks assess how well LLMs can:

  • Maintain coherent conversation flow

  • Understand and respond to context

  • Provide helpful and relevant responses

  • Handle multi-turn conversations

  • Adapt responses to user needs

  • Maintain appropriate conversation tone

Key Benchmarks

Chatbot Arena

Purpose: Evaluates conversational quality through human preference judgments

Description: Chatbot Arena uses crowdsourced human evaluations to compare different LLMs in conversational scenarios. Users rate responses based on helpfulness, harmlessness, and overall quality, creating a preference-based ranking system.

Resources: Chatbot Arena | Chatbot Arena Paper

MT-Bench

Purpose: Tests multi-turn conversation capabilities and context retention

Description: MT-Bench evaluates an LLM’s ability to maintain context and coherence across multiple conversation turns. The benchmark tests how well models can follow conversation threads and provide consistent responses.

Resources: MT-Bench dataset

Conversation quality is also evaluated in other benchmarks such as BigBench, which includes dialogue and conversational tasks as part of its comprehensive evaluation framework.