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Schroedinger's Threshold: When the AUC doesn't predict Accuracy

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arxiv 2404.03344 v2 pith:UFKAHJWL submitted 2024-04-04 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords accuracyapplicationcalibrationactualmodelmodelspredictacademic
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The Area Under Curve measure (AUC) seems apt to evaluate and compare diverse models, possibly without calibration. An important example of AUC application is the evaluation and benchmarking of models that predict faithfulness of generated text. But we show that the AUC yields an academic and optimistic notion of accuracy that can misalign with the actual accuracy observed in application, yielding significant changes in benchmark rankings. To paint a more realistic picture of downstream model performance (and prepare a model for actual application), we explore different calibration modes, testing calibration data and method.

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