Human evaluation operations: guidelines, sampling, agreement and cost
Run human evaluation as an operation: write guidelines and rubrics, choose pairwise versus absolute scoring, sample sensibly, train and calibrate raters, measure agreement, control biases, compute sample sizes, and combine human and automated judging.
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Automated metrics and LLM judges scale, but humans define what good means and calibrate everything else. Human evaluation is costly and noisy, so it must be designed.
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