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AI Agent Evaluation - Methods and Best Practices for Measuring Agent Performance

Elvis Saravia via YouTube

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Learn comprehensive strategies for evaluating AI agents through this detailed webinar featuring Pratik Bhavsar from Galileo at DAIR.AI Academy. Discover the fundamental components of AI agents and explore eight strategic plays for building robust evaluation systems, including creating high and low-level metrics, selecting experimental infrastructure, optimizing instructions and retrieval processes, and integrating agentic tests into CI/CD pipelines. Master the development of SLMs for real-time monitoring, curation of large-scale evaluation datasets, and improvement of metric accuracy through human feedback integration. Examine the newly launched Agent Leaderboard v2 and its ranking methodology while understanding the critical balance between cost and performance in agent evaluation. Explore evaluation best practices, the triad of tradeoffs in AI agent development, and gain insights into building comprehensive evaluation systems with integrated observability. Access practical guidance on the five steps to evaluation intelligence and understand how to implement effective monitoring and testing frameworks for production AI agent deployments.

Syllabus

00:00 Intros
02:56 Introduction to AI Agent Evaluation
09:06 5 Steps to Evaluation Intelligence
11:13 Components of An Agent
15:08 Integrated Observability
15:49 Play 1 - Create high & low-level metrics
28:12 Play 2 - Select your experimental infrastructure
32:31 Play 3 - Optimize your instructions
34:50 Play 4 - Optimize your retrieval
38:02 Play 5 - Add agentic tests to CI/CD
39:46 Play 6 - Build SLMS for real-time monitoring
43:46 Play 7 - Curate large-scale eval sets
46:21 Play 8 - Improve metric accuracy with/ human feedback
49:27 Building Your Evaluation System
51:23 Agent Leaderboard v2 launch
57:49 Agent Leaderboard v2 ranking
1:02:20 Cost vs Performance
1:05:56 Evaluation Best Practices
1:08:34 The Triad of Tradeoffs
1:10:18 Q&A

Taught by

Elvis Saravia

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