LLM evaluation is where you find out if your model is actually good, or just sounds good.
A model can write impressive answers and still fail on accuracy, reasoning, consistency, safety, or hallucinations.
Thatโs why evaluating an LLM goes beyond asking, โDoes this answer look good?โ
You need to test things like:
โข Accuracy
โข Relevance
โข Reasoning
โข Factuality
โข Hallucination
โข Safety
โข Consistency
โข Instruction following
And depending on the use case, you might use benchmarks, human evaluation, LLM-as-a-judge, or custom evaluation datasets.
Building an LLM is only half the job. Knowing whether it actually works is the other half.