Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Falcon-40B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Falcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—30.8
Released2023-03-152024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1222

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LMArena Coding—1165
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1148
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math—1164
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English—1135
LMArena Chinese—1186
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1050
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1141

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1137
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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