pretty_name: Beetle merged models — benchmark evaluation vs parents
tags:
- model-merging
- mergeability
- blimp
- multiblimp
- evaluation
- multilingual
annotations_creators:
- machine-generated
language:
- en
- nl
- de
- zh
configs:
- config_name: long
default: true
data_files:
- split: train
path: beetle_merge_eval_long.csv
- config_name: deltas
data_files:
- split: train
path: beetle_merge_eval_deltas.csv
- config_name: coverage
data_files:
- split: train
path: coverage_by_merge.csv
- config_name: summary_by_family_benchmark
data_files:
- split: train
path: summary_by_family_benchmark.csv
- config_name: summary_by_operator_arm
data_files:
- split: train
path: summary_by_operator_arm.csv
Beetle merged models — benchmark evaluation against their parents
Minimal-pair benchmark accuracy for the Beetle merged models published in the
Mergeability org, scored against their own parent models and, where one
exists, the jointly-trained ceiling on the same harness.
The existing sweep datasets (Mergeability/merge-sweep-results,
Mergeability-2/mergeability-results) record merge quality in nats (NLL,
delta_floor, rel_damage, barrier, geometry). They contain no downstream
benchmark accuracy for these repos — this dataset adds that layer.
Files
| file | what it is |
|---|---|
beetle_merge_eval_long.csv |
tidy long format: merge_id, provenance_family, parent_a, parent_b, ceiling, rung, operator, arm, benchmark, metric, value, chance, n, eval_langs, kind — every table regenerates from this |
beetle_merge_eval_deltas.csv |
the same rows plus naive_value, parent_a_value, parent_b_value, better_parent, ceiling_value, d_naive, d_parent, d_ceiling, z_vs_chance, at_chance, near_chance |
coverage_by_merge.csv |
per-repo: rungs published vs rungs scored, and status |
summary_*.csv |
per-family / per-operator aggregates |
RESULTS_BEETLE_MERGE_EVAL.md |
what ran, what did not, the honest verdict per family |
fig_headline_naive_vs_aligned.png |
naive-vs-aligned and better-parent-vs-merged scatters, faceted by provenance family |
fig_merge_vs_joint_ceiling.png |
merged vs jointly-trained counterpart, for the two families that publish one |
arm_identity_audit.csv |
per operator-block: which arms exist, and whether aligned/transport are byte-identical to naive |
harness_validation_vs_beetle_analyze.csv |
cell-by-cell agreement with beetle-analyze published numbers |
retest_reliability.csv |
the 1,026 cells independently scored twice by two waves — a repeat-measurement check on the harness |
kind == "reference" rows are the parent and ceiling models themselves; kind == "merge"
rows are the merged rungs. Chance is 0.5 for every minimal-pair benchmark and 50 for BLiSS.
Benchmarks
English BLiMP (nyu-mll/blimp, 67,000 pairs), MultiBLiMP (jumelet/multiblimp,
per language), BLiMP-NL (juletxara/blimp-nl, 9,000), ZhoBLiMP
(Junrui1202/zhoblimp, 35,400), and BLiSS (ALTACambridge/BLiSS) where present.
MultiBLiMP has no zho, jpn, kor or fil config, so Chinese pairs get
ZhoBLiMP instead.
Harness
Scoring is a frozen vendor of
beetle-analyze
(src/beetle_analyze/eval/eval_blimp.py, eval_bliss.py): sum log-probability
per sentence, accuracy = fraction where logp(good) > logp(bad); BLiSS metrics
are a direct port of compute_bliss_metrics. The only change is that the fp32
[B,T,V] log-softmax is evaluated in row chunks (identical values, bounded
memory), and rung subfolders are staged to disk because trust_remote_code
does not honour subfolder= when resolving auto_map.
Caveat that dominates everything else
For every Beetle pair checked, the published __aligned folder holds
byte-identical weights to its __naive sibling (verified on LFS sha256).
Δ vs naive is therefore exactly 0 for aligned rungs, by construction, and no
conclusion about weight alignment can be drawn from these artefacts. Only
__transport differs from __naive.
Scope
Minimal-pair benchmarks only. BLiSS was not run — the scorer is vendored and working
and a 79-model job set is prepared, but the pass was dropped on the user's instruction, not
for any technical reason. A small pilot is retained under benchmark == "bliss" and labelled
as such. MECO L2 ΔlogL and JFLEG were also not run; RESULTS_BEETLE_MERGE_EVAL.md carries the
exact commands for all three.