Summary of On Speeding Up Language Model Evaluation, by Jin Peng Zhou et al.
On Speeding Up Language Model Evaluation
by Jin Peng Zhou, Christian K. Belardi, Ruihan Wu, Travis Zhang, Carla P. Gomes, Wen Sun, Kilian Q. Weinberger
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes an adaptive approach to efficiently evaluate the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) for prompt-based methods. The traditional exhaustive evaluation process can be time-consuming and costly, making it necessary to find a more efficient way to explore the space of hyper-parameters. By leveraging multi-armed bandits and low-rank matrix factorization, this method can identify the top-performing method using only 5-15% of typical resources, resulting in significant cost savings (up to 95%). The approach is demonstrated on several competitive benchmark problems, showcasing its efficacy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us find better ways to test how well large language models work. Right now, testing these models takes a lot of time and money. To make it faster and cheaper, the researchers came up with an idea called adaptive evaluation. It’s like taking small steps to figure out which way is best. They used special math tools to make it happen, and it worked! Now we can test language models more efficiently and save time and money. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Prompt
