WildIFEval: Instruction Following in the Wild
Authors: name: Gili Lior; name: Asaf Yehudai; name: Ariel Gera; name: Liat Ein-Dor
Published: 2025-03-09 12:06:29

Abstract: Recent LLMs have shown remarkable success in following user instructions, yet
handling instructions with multiple constraints remains a significant
challenge. In this work, we introduce WildIFEval - a large-scale dataset of 12K
real user instructions with diverse, multi-constraint conditions. Unlike prior
datasets, our collection spans a broad lexical and topical spectrum of
constraints, in natural user prompts. We categorize these constraints into
eight high-level classes to capture their distribution and dynamics in
real-world scenarios. Leveraging WildIFEval, we conduct extensive experiments
to benchmark the instruction-following capabilities of leading LLMs. Our
findings reveal that all evaluated models experience performance degradation
with an increasing number of constraints. Thus, we show that all models have a
large room for improvement on such tasks. Moreover, we observe that the
specific type of constraint plays a critical role in model performance. We
release our dataset to promote further research on instruction-following under
complex, realistic conditions.