Navigating the Modern Evaluation Landscape: Considerations in Benchmarks and Frameworks for Large Language Models (LLMs) (2024.lrec-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | General-purpose Language Models have changed the world of Natural Language Processing, if not the world itself. |
| Approach: | This tutorial will lay the foundations and explain the basics of evaluation and compare traditional methods to newly developed methods. |
| Outcome: | The tutorial assumes little familiarity with metrics, datasets, prompts and benchmarks . it will compare traditional methods to newly developed methods . |
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