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# F1 score (F-measure one)

The F1 score in LLM stands for **F-measure one**, and it is a metric used to evaluate the performance of a language model on a classification task. It is calculated by averaging the precision and recall of the model, with each measure being weighted equally.

**Precision** is the fraction of positive predictions that are actually correct, while **recall** is the fraction of actual positives that are correctly predicted. A high F1 score indicates that the model is both precise and has good recall, meaning that it is able to correctly identify both positive and negative instances.

F1 score is a particularly useful metric for evaluating LLMs because it can take into account the class imbalance that is often present in real-world datasets. For example, a dataset of customer reviews may contain many more positive reviews than negative reviews. In this case, a model that simply predicts "positive" for all reviews would have a high accuracy, but a low F1 score, because it would have poor recall for negative reviews.

F1 score is also a good metric for comparing the performance of different LLMs on the same task. For example, a study by Google AI found that the F1 score of the PaLM LLM on a variety of natural language processing tasks was consistently higher than that of other LLMs, such as GPT-3 and Jurassic-1 Jumbo.

Here are some examples of tasks where F1 score is commonly used to evaluate LLMs:

* Text classification: Classifying text into different categories, such as spam/not spam, positive/negative reviews, or news articles into different topics.
* Question answering: Answering questions about a given text passage.
* Summarization: Generating a shorter version of a text passage that preserves the key information.
* Machine translation: Translating text from one language to another.

Overall, F1 score is a valuable metric for evaluating the performance of LLMs on classification tasks. It is particularly useful for datasets that are class imbalanced or when comparing the performance of different LLMs on the same task.
