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Collaborative benchmark for language model capabilities

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Decision brief

Decision-critical facts for BIG-bench

Good fit when

  • When you need a comprehensive benchmark that evaluates language models across various tasks and includes methods for extrapolating model capabilities.
  • When your project requires tools specifically designed to measure human-like understanding of AI models beyond mere imitation.

Avoid when

  • If you are looking for a tool that simplifies benchmarking with minimal configuration, BIG-bench requires setting up an environment and can be more complex compared to streamlined benchmark tools.
  • As BIG-bench relies on collaboration across various tasks and contributions from the community, it might not be ideal if you need benchmark tasks or evaluations immediately available without potential
Requirements:
Python 3.5-3.8 required.; `pytest` is necessary for running automated tests.

Observed Jul 11, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts

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Maintenance and security

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Maintenance
Archived (812d since push)
As of Oct 10, 2026
Provenance
Not a fork · Organization account
As of Oct 10, 2026
Security (OSV)
324 low (324 low)
As of Jul 11, 2026

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Backing

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Company
Google·GitHub org profile·Jul 11, 2026
Employees
47,756·Wikidata (P1128 employees)·Jul 11, 2026
Commercial model
Pure OSS·GitHub org profile (public repos)·Jul 11, 2026

Install

pip install BIG-bench
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Overview

Beyond the Imitation Game collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models through various tasks and evaluation methods.

Capability facts

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python

Source: github.language · Oct 10, 2026

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Compatibility

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Python runtimePython

Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Oct 10, 2026)

* Python 3.5-3.8
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README

Quick start Colab notebooks Using SeqIO to inspect and evaluate BIG bench json tasks : load BIG bench json tasks and inspect examples <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/BIG bench/blob/main/bigbench/bbseqio/docs/quick start.ipynb" target=" parent" <img src="h...

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