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Q: What are LLM Evals? – Hamel’s Blog - Hamel Husain

If you are completely new to product-specific LLM evals (not foundation model benchmarks), see these posts: part 1, part 2 and part 3. Otherwise, keep reading.

Contents:

  • Motivation
  • Iterating Quickly == Success
  • Case Study: Lucy, A Real Estate AI Assistant
  • The Types Of Evaluation
    1. Level 1: Unit Tests
    2. Level 2: Human & Model Eval
    3. Level 3: A/B Testing
    4. Evaluating RAG
  • Eval Systems Unlock Superpowers For Free
    1. Fine-Tuning
    2. Data Synthesis & Curation
    3. Debugging
  • Contents:

  • The Problem: AI Teams Are Drowning in Data
  • Step 1: Find The Principal Domain Expert
  • Step 2: Create a Dataset
  • Step 3: Direct The Domain Expert to Make Pass/Fail Judgments with Critiques
  • Step 4: Fix Errors
  • Step 5: Build Your LLM as A Judge, Iteratively
  • Step 6: Perform Error Analysis
  • Step 7: Create More Specialized LLM Judges (if needed)
  • Recap of Critique Shadowing
  • Resources
  • Contents:

  • How error analysis consistently reveals the highest-ROI improvements
  • Why a simple data viewer is your most important AI investment
  • How to empower domain experts (not just engineers) to improve your AI
  • Why synthetic data is more effective than you think
  • How to maintain trust in your evaluation system
  • Why your AI roadmap should count experiments, not features

  • This article is part of our AI Evals FAQ, a collection of common questions (and answers) about LLM evaluation. View all FAQs or return to the homepage.