LLM Output — Evaluating, debugging, and interpreting
Last Updated on December 30, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Lan Chu
Originally published on Towards AI.
LLMs are not useful if they are not sufficiently accurate. In this article, we will be looking at a few methods to evaluate, debug, and interpret the performance of the LLMs, particularly the model I will be using in this article, which is GPT-3.5-Turbo. You can apply the techniques in this article to other LLMs.
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