The Future of Language Models: A Perspective on Evaluation

In this 1-hour 6-minute talk from the Simons Institute, Swabha Swayamdipta from the University of Southern California explores evaluation approaches for language models and their implications for future development. Examine how assessment methodologies shape our understanding of language model capabilities, limitations, and potential trajectories. Gain insights into evaluation frameworks that can better capture model performance across diverse contexts and tasks, with particular attention to how these evaluation paradigms might influence the next generation of transformer-based architectures.