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Successful language model evals — Jason Wei

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Everybody uses evaluation benchmarks (“evals”), but I think they deserve more attention than they are currently getting. Evals are incentives for the research community, and breakthroughs are often closely linked to a huge performance jump on some eval. In fact, I’d argue that a key job of the team

Successful language model evals May 24 Written By Jason Wei Everybody uses evaluation benchmarks (“evals”), but I think they deserve more attention than they are currently getting. Evals are incentives for the research community, and breakthroughs are often closely linked to a huge performance jump on some eval. In fact, I’d argue that a key job of the team lead is to dictate what eval to optimize. What is the definition of a successful eval? I’d say that if an eval is used in breakthrough papers and trusted within the community, then it’s clearly successful. Here are some of the successful ev

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