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Chiang: Online dynamic benchmarks are slower and more expensive than offline benchmarks

Wei-Lin Chiang · In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever · Nov 1, 2024 · at 7:48

LMSYS co-founder Wei-Lin Chiang discusses trade-offs between dynamic human preference arenas and static offline benchmarks in large language model development.

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“This kind of like online dynamic benchmark is slow, is more expensive than Standing benchmark, offline benchmark, where people still need it, like when they build models, they need static benchmark to track.”

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