Can we get some quality control on all these model perf posts?
A user on reddit.com's dev_community is calling for improved quality control on model performance posts. They argue that many posts lack essential information like perplexity/KLD, hardware specs, model params, quant(s), runtime, and tuned runtime parameters, making it difficult for local runners to evaluate or reproduce results. The user suggests that without more rigor, the community risks being overwhelmed by low-quality content, similar to other AI-oriented subreddits.
This post highlights the lack of standardized reporting for AI model performance, unlike other technical fields where detailed specifications are common, and proposes specific metrics for improvement.
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Too many hyperactive amateurs are coming in here with "1b model at 832843tok/s!" and hardly any of them have all the info necessary for local runners to evaluate. We need context ladders with perplexity/KLD, hardware specs, model params and quant(s), runtime, tuned runtime parameters, basically everything we need to reproduce locally if we can match the entire setup. To say nothing of what the model is even good at in the first place if it's not a well-known model.
The goal is to get perf numbers that show they meet a certain quality bar. I don't care if I get 8324834 tok/s if it's all garbage.
Can we start filtering the hyperactive amateur perf posts please? It's getting really frustrating seeing all these posts of models and wading through info just to see that it doesn't test with anything but an empty context or doesn't say anything about quant or platform.
We need to define some rigor and apply it to this place, or it will remain like most ai-oriented subs and get continually choked with slop.