Evaluation Concepts and Overview

Understanding LLM Evaluation with Opik

This video introduces the fundamentals of LLM evaluation and why it differs from traditional machine learning metrics. Unlike conventional ML evaluation that relies on accuracy and F1 scores, LLM evaluation requires assessing text qualities like relevance, accuracy, and helpfulness. You’ll learn about Opik’s systematic three-component evaluation framework and see how it enables quantitative performance measurement across hundreds of test cases.

Key Highlights

Beyond Traditional Metrics: LLM evaluation requires new approaches since outputs are text that must be assessed for qualities like relevance, accuracy, and helpfulness
Three-Component Framework: Opik’s evaluation system consists of datasets (example inputs/outputs), metrics (automated scoring methods), and experiments (evaluation runs)
Comprehensive Dataset Management: Collections of example inputs and expected outputs that represent your specific use cases and requirements
Flexible Metrics System: From simple heuristics to sophisticated LLM-as-a-judge approaches for automated output scoring
Systematic Experimentation: Each experiment represents a specific LLM application configuration tested against datasets with defined metrics
Model Comparison Power: Compare different models (GPT-3.5 vs Claude 3.5 vs GPT-4 vs Gemini) systematically on the same datasets
Prompt Template Testing: Evaluate various prompt templates against datasets with specific models for optimization
Quantitative Decision Making: Replace subjective judgments based on few examples with quantitative measurement across hundreds of test cases
Production Confidence: Structured evaluation approach provides confidence before deploying LLM applications to production