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
Towards Interpretable Summary Evaluation via Allocation of Contextual Embeddings to Reference Text Topics
Ben Schaper, Christopher Lohse, Marcell Streile, Andrea Giovannini, Richard Osuala
FineD-Eval: Fine-grained Automatic Dialogue-Level Evaluation
Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Qiquan Zhang, Thomas Friedrichs, Haizhou Li
DEMETR: Diagnosing Evaluation Metrics for Translation
Marzena Karpinska, Nishant Raj, Katherine Thai, Yixiao Song, Ankita Gupta, Mohit Iyyer