Evaluation Metric
Evaluation metrics are crucial for assessing the performance of machine learning models, particularly in complex tasks like text and image generation, translation, and question answering. Current research emphasizes developing more nuanced and interpretable metrics that go beyond simple correlation with human judgments, focusing on aspects like multi-faceted assessment, robustness to biases, and alignment with expert evaluations. These improvements are vital for ensuring reliable model comparisons, facilitating the development of more effective algorithms, and ultimately leading to more trustworthy and impactful AI applications.
Papers
APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization
Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang
Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration
Daniel Deutsch, George Foster, Markus Freitag
INSTRUCTSCORE: Explainable Text Generation Evaluation with Finegrained Feedback
Wenda Xu, Danqing Wang, Liangming Pan, Zhenqiao Song, Markus Freitag, William Yang Wang, Lei Li