The field of natural language processing is moving towards developing more robust and reliable evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs). Recent research has focused on creating comprehensive benchmarks and frameworks to assess the performance of LLMs in various tasks, such as automatic survey generation, question answering, and text summarization. These efforts aim to address the limitations of existing evaluation methods, including biased metrics and over-reliance on LLMs-as-judges. Notably, some papers have introduced innovative approaches to evaluating LLMs, such as using human preference metrics and combining LLM-based scoring with quantitative metrics. Others have explored the use of synthetic data and dimension reduction techniques to improve evaluation frameworks. Overall, the field is shifting towards more nuanced and multifaceted evaluation methods to advance the development of LLMs. Noteworthy papers include SGSimEval, which introduces a comprehensive benchmark for survey generation, and LongRecall, which presents a structured approach for robust recall evaluation in long-form text. Additionally, the paper on evaluating knowledge graph complexity via semantic, spectral, and structural metrics provides valuable insights into understanding dataset complexity.
Evaluating and Improving Large Language Models
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SGSimEval: A Comprehensive Multifaceted and Similarity-Enhanced Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Systems
TracSum: A New Benchmark for Aspect-Based Summarization with Sentence-Level Traceability in Medical Domain