Troubleshooting Large Language Models with Amber Roberts

ODSC - Open Data Science
2 min readMar 28, 2024

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In this episode, Amber Roberts of Arize AI brings her years of experience working with models as a data scientist and machine learning engineer to one of the pivotal developments of 2023 and 2024, Large Language Models (LLMS). Join her for an exploration of that essential topic, troubleshooting.

Every data scientist will run into issues and problems that they will have to troubleshoot. But, what is the best way to choose the correct metrics, fix errors, and deal with hallucinations? During this discussion, Amber dives into the reasons why troubleshooting Large Language Models is so difficult, specific issues that she’s encountered in her work, and strategies for resolving them with a focus on the 9 parts for LLMs.

Amber also takes time to do a deeper dive into hallucinations in particular, with a discussion on what constitutes a hallucination, what causes them, and the techniques and tools you can use to identify unobvious hallucinations.

You’ll hear about Phoenix, an early-stage interpretability tool for LLMs, and learn how it helps with the evaluation, troubleshooting, and fine-tuning of LLMs.

And last, but not least, Amber will leave you with some advice on how to make the most of your AI career in this rapidly changing industry.

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Originally posted on OpenDataScience.com

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