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Model Evaluation

Measuring AI model performance using benchmarks and metrics.

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Definition

Model evaluation assesses how well AI models perform on various tasks and criteria.

  • **Key Metrics:**
  • Accuracy: Correct predictions / total
  • Perplexity: Language model uncertainty
  • BLEU/ROUGE: Text similarity scores
  • F1 Score: Balance precision/recall
  • Human preference: User studies, Elo ratings

Popular Benchmarks: - MMLU (knowledge) - HumanEval (coding) - MT-Bench (conversation) - BigBench (diverse tasks) - HELM (holistic evaluation)

Evaluation Challenges: - Benchmark contamination - Gaming metrics - Real-world performance gap - Emergent capabilities

Best Practices: - Multiple benchmarks - Human evaluation - Task-specific metrics - Regular re-evaluation

Examples

Claude 3 Opus scoring 86.8% on MMLU knowledge benchmark.

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