Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and Yi-Lightning in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Yi-Lightning leads 50.4 to 27.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | 01.AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 27 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Yi-Lightning: 27.0 (#315)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1313 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Yi-Lightning: 24.9 (#137)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1302 |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Yi-Lightning: 33.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1300 |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Yi-Lightning: 34.8 (#182)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1002 | 1286 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), Yi-Lightning: 42.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1320 |
| LMArena French | 1024 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1255 |
| LMArena German | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1315 |
Instruction Following Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Yi-Lightning: 67.6 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1278 |
Long Context Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Yi-Lightning leads
Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Yi-Lightning: 50.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1311 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.9 versus 27.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Yi-Lightning share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.