Summary of Polyrating: a Cost-effective and Bias-aware Rating System For Llm Evaluation, by Jasper Dekoninck et al.
Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation
by Jasper Dekoninck, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Polyrating, a novel rating system designed to overcome the limitations of current evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs). The existing rating systems suffer from biases that significantly impact evaluation results, require expensive preference datasets, and fail to facilitate meaningful comparisons of model ratings across different tasks. Polyrating uses maximum a posteriori estimation to provide a more nuanced analysis of model performance at lower costs, detecting and quantifying biases affecting human preferences. This approach reduces the cost of human evaluations by up to 41% for new models and up to 77% for new tasks by leveraging existing benchmark scores, enabling direct comparisons of ratings across different tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Polyrating is a rating system that helps evaluate large language models (LLMs) more accurately. Right now, we use methods that have problems like bias, need lots of data, and can’t compare results well. Polyrating fixes these issues by using math to understand how people rate things. This makes the ratings fairer and cheaper to get. It also lets us compare results across different tasks and see what each model is good or bad at. |
