Ahead of AI10/5/2025

Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)

Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples How do we actually evaluate LLMs? It’s a simple question, but one that tends to open up a much bigger discussion. When advising or collaborating on projects, one of the things I get asked most often is how to choose between different models and how to make sense of the evaluation results out there. (And, of course, how to measure progress...