UltraEval: A Lightweight Platform for Flexible and Comprehensive Evaluation for LLMs
This provides a more efficient and user-friendly evaluation platform for LLM researchers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing evaluation concepts with improved modularity and ease of use.
The paper tackles the problem of complex and poorly modularized evaluation platforms for Large Language Models (LLMs) by introducing UltraEval, a lightweight, comprehensive, and modular framework that enables flexible combination of models, tasks, prompts, benchmarks, and metrics, resulting in a publicly available tool for researchers.
Evaluation is pivotal for refining Large Language Models (LLMs), pinpointing their capabilities, and guiding enhancements. The rapid development of LLMs calls for a lightweight and easy-to-use framework for swift evaluation deployment. However, considering various implementation details, developing a comprehensive evaluation platform is never easy. Existing platforms are often complex and poorly modularized, hindering seamless incorporation into research workflows. This paper introduces UltraEval, a user-friendly evaluation framework characterized by its lightweight nature, comprehensiveness, modularity, and efficiency. We identify and reimplement three core components of model evaluation (models, data, and metrics). The resulting composability allows for the free combination of different models, tasks, prompts, benchmarks, and metrics within a unified evaluation workflow. Additionally, UltraEval supports diverse models owing to a unified HTTP service and provides sufficient inference acceleration. UltraEval is now available for researchers publicly.