Benchmarks: MMLU, HumanEval, and HELM
Navigate the LLM benchmark ecosystem - what each benchmark actually measures, saturation, contamination, and how to build benchmarks that can't be gamed.
Navigate the LLM benchmark ecosystem - what each benchmark actually measures, saturation, contamination, and how to build benchmarks that can't be gamed.
Master reference-based generation metrics - BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, BLEURT - and know exactly when each one lies to you.
Building a production evaluation harness for LLMs - lm-evaluation-harness architecture, custom task integration, CI/CD evaluation gates, versioned evaluation datasets, and automated regression detection.
Evaluating LLMs on code generation tasks - HumanEval, MBPP, LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench, pass@k metric, EvalPlus, execution-based evaluation, security testing, and building sandboxed evaluation environments.
A comprehensive guide to cross-validation - k-Fold, stratified, repeated, LOOCV, group CV, time-series CV, nested CV, and common pitfalls including data leakage.
A comprehensive guide to regression evaluation - MAE, MSE, RMSE, R², MAPE, Huber loss, residual diagnostics, business-aligned metrics, and production monitoring patterns.
Measuring hallucination rates in open-source LLMs - TruthfulQA, FActScore, RAGAs factuality, entity verification, and building automated hallucination detection pipelines for production RAG systems.
Design rigorous human evaluation studies for LLMs - from annotation protocols to inter-annotator agreement to Chatbot Arena methodology.
Use powerful LLMs to automatically evaluate other models - with position bias mitigation, CoT judging, and cost analysis.
Evaluating LLM long-context capability - the Needle in a Haystack test, RULER benchmark, lost-in-the-middle phenomenon, and measuring effective context utilization vs claimed context window size.
A complete guide to evaluating large language models - from perplexity to production monitoring.
Build eval suites that give real signal - benchmark contamination, domain-specific evaluation, LLM-as-judge for open models, and regression testing after fine-tuning.
Understanding the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard, what each benchmark actually measures, how contamination distorts scores, and how to use leaderboard numbers to make real deployment decisions.
Understand perplexity, cross-entropy, bits per byte, and when intrinsic metrics mislead you about model quality.
Build a comprehensive production monitoring stack for LLMs - latency, cost, quality drift, safety, and observability platforms compared.
Evaluate RAG systems with precision - the RAG triad, RAGAS framework, golden datasets, and retrieval metrics for production pipelines.
Evaluating LLM mathematical and logical reasoning - GSM8K, MATH, AIME benchmarks, chain-of-thought evaluation, process reward models, self-consistency voting, and measuring multi-step reasoning quality.
Evaluate LLMs for harmful outputs, social bias, hallucination, and jailbreak vulnerability - including red teaming methodology and production monitoring.
Evaluating open-source models for safety and bias before production deployment - red-teaming, toxicity measurement, demographic bias benchmarks, jailbreak robustness, and building end-to-end safety evaluation pipelines.
Building evaluation suites tailored to your production use case - test set curation, annotation, metric selection, LLM-as-judge, and automated scoring pipelines that actually predict deployment quality.
A deep dive into data splitting - why the split matters, how to partition data correctly, data leakage patterns, temporal splits, group splits, and production-grade evaluation design.