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LLM evaluation

Also: Evals

A repeatable procedure for measuring whether answers from a language model are getting better or worse.

Without measurement, every change to prompt, model or retrieval is a gut feeling. An evaluation consists of fixed example cases with expected outcomes and a scoring step, automated or human.

For many applications a few dozen well-chosen cases are enough, covering the typical and the dangerous situations.

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