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Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance
This paper introduces Soup Of Category Experts (SoCE), a novel model souping technique that leverages benchmark composition and non-uniform weighted averaging to achieve state-of-the-art LLM performance. SoCE identifies 'expert' models for weakly-correlated category clusters and combines them, outperforming previous uniform-averaging approaches and enhancing consistency across diverse tasks. The method demonstrates significant improvements on benchmarks like Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard, Multilingual Grade School Math, and ∞-Bench, highlighting a computationally efficient alternative to extensive retraining for boosting LLM capabilities.
Executive Impact
80.68%
State-of-the-Art Accuracy (70B models)
2.7%
Improvement over SOTA (70B models)
97.2%
Tasks Retained by SoCE (BFCL)
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Model Souping
| Model | BFCL Accuracy (70B) | BFCL Accuracy (8B) |
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| xLAM-2-70b | 78.56% | - |
| COALM-70B | 54.49% | - |
| watt-tool-70B | 73.57% | - |
| Uniform Souping (All Candidates) | 68.33% | 69.80% |
| Uniform Souping (SoCE Selection) | 78.40% | 74.01% |
| SoCE (Proposed Method) | 80.68% | 76.50% |
Enhanced Consistency & New Task Capabilities
SoCE-souped models exhibit significantly higher Pearson correlations between category performances across model populations compared to their unsouped counterparts, indicating improved robustness and coherence across diverse task types. This suggests that the aggregation of expert models helps to generalize capabilities more effectively.
Notably, when individual models in the soup all failed on a given task, SoCE succeeded in 8.4% of cases (32 out of 380 tasks). This demonstrates SoCE's ability to solve new tasks that none of its constituent models could handle alone, showcasing true emergent capabilities through intelligent weight averaging.
+2.28%
Relative Improvement for 70B models with Weight Optimization
SoCE offers a computationally efficient and low-cost alternative to extensive retraining, promoting iterative reuse of existing pretrained models and significantly expanding collaboration opportunities in the open-source landscape. This democratizes access to state-of-the-art LLM capabilities, fostering innovation among a broader community.
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Your AI Implementation Roadmap
Phase 1: Discovery & Strategy
Understand your current LLM landscape, identify anti-correlated benchmark categories, and select initial candidate models. Define performance metrics and target improvements.
Phase 2: SoCE Model Construction
Implement the Soup Of Category Experts (SoCE) methodology. This includes correlation analysis, expert model selection for weakly-correlated clusters, and non-uniform weighted averaging to maximize aggregate performance.
Phase 3: Validation & Deployment
Rigorously evaluate the souped model across diverse benchmarks, including multilingual, tool-calling, and reasoning tasks. Deploy the optimized model and monitor its performance in production.
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