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Evaluating Language Models

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

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How to Measure Efficiency in the API

On efficiency, let's talk about inference efficiency. How long does it take for me to get a result back? And this is a useful thing to know because if you want to use the API, you kind of want to know. It depends on the hardware they have back. So there's a model efficiency where it's only probably a model. There's optimizations like caching and batching and various tricks. And then there's hardware. Like if you add more GPUs, sure, in many cases you can get things to go faster.

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