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Evaluation Pipeline Design

How to design a complete LLM evaluation pipeline: decomposing complex tasks into per-component evaluations, writing evaluation guidelines, choosing annotation methods and data, and wiring the pipeline into a CI/CD deployment gate.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Decompose a complex LLM application into individually testable components
  • Write evaluation guidelines that produce high inter-annotator agreement
  • Choose between human annotation, AI-as-Judge, and automated metrics for each evaluation dimension
  • Design a test set that is representative, uncontaminated, and maintainable
  • Integrate eval into a CI/CD pipeline as a deployment quality gate

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component decompositiontest set designannotation guidelinesinter-annotator agreementCohen's kappaeval-as-CIregression testingRAG evaluationretrieval metricsAI-as-Judgedeployment gates

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