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TRACK 4

📊 Quality and evolution

Measure errors, calibrate expectations, and plan specialization.

2 modules 12 topics 70–100 min with practice 12 exercises
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4.1 35–50 min

📊 Benchmarks, calibration, and evaluation

Compare what was actually measured.

4.2 35–50 min

📊 Specialization and final project

Define when to evolve and when to stop.

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MODULE 4.1

Benchmarks, calibration, and evaluation

Compare what was actually measured.

What it is

The sources combine results from different benchmarks, tasks, and checkpoints.

Why learn

Before repeating a percentage, note the model, review, dataset, number of classes, number of examples, and method.

Key concepts

Protocol

conditions

Sample

used examples

Task

measured objective

Comparability

aligned conditions

What it is

The current report shows baseline checkpoints below the majority class baseline in typed-decisions, while the specialized version improves.

Why learn

In the lab, the small set of tickets is a functional smoke test.

Key concepts

Zero-shot

task without fine-tuning

Baseline

simple reference

Specialist

fine-tuned model

Generalization

new data

What it is

Accuracy is the fraction of correct predictions.

Why learn

In support, confusing sales with other may have a different impact than diverting a critical incident.

Key concepts

Accuracy

correct fraction

Confusion

error between classes

Imbalance

unequal classes

Majority baseline

dominant class

What it is

Multiclass Brier sums the squared error between probabilities and a one-hot label.

Why learn

State the formula: some reports divide Brier by the number of classes, while others sum it.

Key concepts

Brier

error of the distribution

ECE

difference by bins

One-hot

single label

Bin

probability interval

What it is

Temperature scaling divides logits by a temperature before softmax.

Why learn

The multilingual checkpoint is described as not calibrated for the user’s domain.

Key concepts

Temperature

logits scale

Holdout

reserved data

Coverage

accepted fraction

Leakage

test misuse

What it is

The evaluate command reads JSONL, runs real weights, and writes results per example—accuracy, baseline, Brier, and ECE.

Why learn

Use the report as a starting point for your own set.

Key concepts

JSONL

one case per line

Evidence

results per case

Error

a diagnostic opportunity

New test

unseen data

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MODULE 4.2

Specialization and final project

Define when to evolve and when to stop.

What it is

Fine-tuning has a cost and only makes sense when the errors found justify changing the model.

Why learn

Classify errors before acting: human-label error, schema error, context error, language error, or capacity error.

Key concepts

Diagnosis

likely cause

Intervention

controlled change

Capacity

needed learning

Cost

total effort

What it is

A domain dataset needs to represent language, class frequency, and the operation’s difficult cases.

Why learn

Record the rubric version and the labeling process.

Key concepts

Split

partition

Group

separation unit

Teacher

label source

Leakage

shared information

What it is

The repository includes a fine-tuning notebook for typed-decisions on two T4 GPUs.

Why learn

Read the cells, output checkpoints, and publishing destination before running.

Key concepts

Notebook

cell-by-cell execution

Epoch

data pass

Output checkpoint

new weights

Publishing

separate stage

What it is

The work uses distribution-based rewards, including a logarithmic and spherical component, and an ordinal term for the score.

Why learn

A training objective with desirable properties does not guarantee calibration after finite training or domain shift.

Key concepts

Your own rule

probabilistic incentive

Reward

training signal

Ordinality

distance between levels

Domain shift

new data

What it is

A reasonable evolution starts in shadow mode: the model recommends, humans decide, and divergences are analyzed.

Why learn

Define metrics and stop criteria before the pilot.

Key concepts

Shadow mode

no action

Drift

data drift

Rollback

version rollback

Stop criterion

set threshold

What it is

Deliver the project working, the contract of the four questions, a versioned dataset, the inference report, and limitations analysis.

Why learn

Compare three examples: one clear, one ambiguous, and one out of the domain.

Key concepts

Reproducibility

repeat

Traceability

find the source

Limitation

known boundary

Next experiment

hypothesis

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