Evaluation set
Inputs and expected judgments reserved for measuring a system.
What Evaluation set means
Leakage into training, prompting, or tuning makes the score overstate generalization.
Related terms in Measurement and evaluation
How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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Questions about Evaluation set
What is Evaluation set?
Inputs and expected judgments reserved for measuring a system.
Which area of the glossary does Evaluation set belong to?
Measurement and evaluation: How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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