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replied to kanaria007's post 1 day ago
✅ New Article: *Evaluation as a Goal Surface* (v0.1) Title: 🧪 Evaluation as a Goal Surface: Experiments, Learning Boundary, and ETH-Aware A/B 🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/evaluation-as-a-goal-surface --- Summary: Most “evaluation” quietly collapses into a single number—and then we optimize the wrong thing. This article reframes evaluation as a *goal surface*: multi-objective, role-aware, and ethics-bounded. In SI-Core terms, experiments become *first-class Jumps (E-Jumps)* with explicit contracts, traces, and gates—so you can run A/B tests, shadow evals, and adaptive rollouts *without violating ETH, confusing principals/roles, or learning from unsafe data*. > Don’t optimize a metric. > Optimize a goal surface—under explicit constraints. --- Why It Matters: • Prevents Goodhart failures by treating evaluation as *multi-goal + constraints*, not a scalar leaderboard • Makes experimentation auditable: *EvalTrace* answers “what changed, for whom, why, and under what policy” • Enables *ETH-aware A/B*: assignment, exposure, and stopping rules respect safety/fairness boundaries • Connects experiments to governance: *Learning Boundary (LB)* + rollout control (PoLB) instead of “ship and pray” --- What’s Inside: • What EVAL is in SI-Core, and *who* is being evaluated (agents / roles / principals) • “Experiments as Jumps”: *E-Jump request/draft* patterns and contracts • *ETH-aware variant testing* (including ID/role constraints at assignment time) • Shadow evaluation + off-policy evaluation (how to learn without unsafe intervention) • Role & persona overlays for EVAL (role-aware scoring, persona-aware reporting) • *EvalTrace* for audits + incident review, plus “evaluate the evaluators” test strategies • Practical experiment design: power/sample size, early stopping, multi-objective bandits, causal inference --- 📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series this is the *how-to-design / how-to-run experiments safely* layer.
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