Paper ID: 2403.07008

AutoEval Done Right: Using Synthetic Data for Model Evaluation

Pierre Boyeau, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Nir Yosef, Jitendra Malik, Michael I. Jordan

The evaluation of machine learning models using human-labeled validation data can be expensive and time-consuming. AI-labeled synthetic data can be used to decrease the number of human annotations required for this purpose in a process called autoevaluation. We suggest efficient and statistically principled algorithms for this purpose that improve sample efficiency while remaining unbiased. These algorithms increase the effective human-labeled sample size by up to 50% on experiments with GPT-4.

Submitted: Mar 9, 2024