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Open LLM Leaderboard vs Reality: How do you evaluate "good" ? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by BlueMetaMind@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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As a beginner, I appreciate that there are metrics for all these LLMs out there so I don't waste time downloading and trying failures. However, I noticed that the Leaderboard doesn't exactly reflect reality for me. YES, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT IT DEPENDS ON MY NEEDS.

I mean really basic stuff of how the LLM acts as a coherent agent, can follow instructions and grasp context in any given situation. Which is often lacking in LLMs I am trying so far, like the boards leader for 30B models 01-ai/Yi-34B for example. I guess there is something similar going on like it used to with GPU benchmarks: dirty tricks and over-optimization for the tests.

I am interested in how more experienced people here evaluate an LLM's fitness. Do you have a battery of questions and instructions you try out first?

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[–] BalorNG@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Technically, you can somewhat automate the testing process by creating a script that makes that model aswer a series of questions that are relevant to YOU and are unique (so cannot be gamed by training for benchmarks) and evaluate those yourself.

Make sure you experiment using different sampling methods and run several tests due to inherent randomness of output.