Evaluation

Learn how to evaluate the performance of LLMs using the ROUGE metric.

Overview

In the realm of natural language processing, evaluating the performance of LLMs is a critical aspect. One of the key tools for this evaluation is the Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) metrics. ROUGE is primarily used to assess the quality of text generated by LLMs.

LLMs like GPT-2 often engage in tasks like text completion or summarization. The effectiveness of the generated texts can’t be effectively measured solely by human judgment due to scalability and consistency issues. For instance, run the code below to generate text based on the following prompt. Think about what score could be assigned to it, and try coming up with a standardized metric to score different texts.

# Generate text based on a prompt for text completion
result = generator("Purple is the best color because", 
    max_length=15, 
    num_return_sequences=1, 
    pad_token_id=generator.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
    
# Display the generated text
print("Text Completion Response:\n" + result[0]['generated_text'] + "\n")
Python code to generate text using GPT-2

It’s difficult to ensure a consistent score solely based on human judgments because of factors like personal preferences. This is where quantitative metrics like ROUGE come into play.

What is ROUGE?

ROUGE is a set of metrics that compare machine-generated texts to a set of references (typically human generated). The main focus of ROUGE is to measure the overlap of n-grams, word sequences, and word pairs between ...

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