Frodex

Frodex

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Foundations
1Introduction2Tokens3Controlling the Model
Communicating with LLMs
4Anatomy of a Good Prompt5System Prompts and Personas6Few-Shot Learning
Structured Outputs
7JSON Mode and Structured Output8Function Calling
Advanced Techniques
9Chain of Thought Reasoning10Managing the Context Window11Embeddings and Semantic Search
Production Systems
12Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)13Streaming Responses14Evaluation and Cost Optimization
Frodex

Frodex

Beta
EnglishPortuguês (BR)
Foundations
1Introduction2Tokens3Controlling the Model
Communicating with LLMs
4Anatomy of a Good Prompt5System Prompts and Personas6Few-Shot Learning
Structured Outputs
7JSON Mode and Structured Output8Function Calling
Advanced Techniques
9Chain of Thought Reasoning10Managing the Context Window11Embeddings and Semantic Search
Production Systems
12Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)13Streaming Responses14Evaluation and Cost Optimization
Production Systems
18 minLesson 14 of 14

Evaluation and Cost Optimization

Measure quality and optimize costs in production LLM systems

Learning goals

  • •Learn to evaluate LLM output quality
  • •Understand cost optimization strategies
  • •Implement monitoring and observability

Evaluation Methods

Automated Metrics - **Exact match**: Response matches expected output - **BLEU/ROUGE**: Text similarity scores - **Custom validators**: Schema compliance, keyword presence

LLM-as-Judge Use a (different) LLM to evaluate responses: ``` Rate this response on accuracy (1-5): Question: {question} Expected themes: {themes} Response: {response} ```

Human Evaluation - A/B testing with users - Expert review for high-stakes applications - Periodic quality audits

Cost Optimization

Model Selection - Use smaller models for simple tasks - GPT-3.5 for classification, GPT-4 for complex reasoning - Fine-tuned small models can outperform large general models

Prompt Optimization - Shorter prompts = lower costs - Remove redundant instructions - Compress examples

Caching - Cache identical queries - Semantic caching for similar queries - TTL based on content freshness needs

Monitoring in Production

Track these metrics:

Performance - Latency (p50, p95, p99) - Time to first token - Token throughput

Quality - Error rates - User feedback signals - Automated quality scores

Cost - Token usage per request - Cost per user/feature - Daily/weekly spend trends

Common mistakes

×Not measuring baseline performance before optimizations
×Optimizing for cost without tracking quality impact
×Using expensive models for simple tasks
×Ignoring caching opportunities for repeated queries

Key takeaways

+Combine automated metrics, LLM-as-judge, and human evaluation for comprehensive assessment
+Match model capability to task complexity—don't use GPT-4 for simple classification
+Implement caching, prompt optimization, and batching to reduce costs
+Monitor latency, error rates, token usage, and quality scores in production

Playground

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Why This Experiment?

Practice evaluation and cost analysis techniques.

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LLM-as-judge provides scalable quality evaluation for subjective criteria.