A library for aggregating and reporting evaluation data. This library also includes support for caching LLM responses.
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README
The Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation libraries
Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation is a set of .NET libraries defined in the following NuGet packages that have been designed to work together to support building processes for evaluating the quality of AI software.
Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation- Defines core abstractions and types for supporting evaluation.Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Quality- Contains evaluators that can be used to evaluate the quality of AI responses in your projects including Relevance, Truth, Completeness, Fluency, Coherence, Equivalence and Groundedness.Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reporting- Contains support for caching LLM responses, storing the results of evaluations and generating reports from that data.Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reporting.Azure- Supports theMicrosoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reportinglibrary with an implementation for caching LLM responses and storing the evaluation results in an Azure Storage container.Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Console- A command line dotnet tool for generating reports and managing evaluation data.
Install the packages
From the command-line:
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Quality
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reporting
Or directly in the C# project file:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation" Version="[CURRENTVERSION]" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Quality" Version="[CURRENTVERSION]" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reporting" Version="[CURRENTVERSION]" />
</ItemGroup>
You can optionally add the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Reporting.Azure package in either of these places if you need Azure Storage support.
Install the command line tool
dotnet tool install Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation.Console --create-manifest-if-needed
Usage Examples
For a comprehensive tour of all the functionality, concepts and APIs available in the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation libraries, check out the API Usage Examples available in the dotnet/ai-samples repo. These examples are structured as a collection of unit tests. Each unit test showcases a specific concept or API, and builds on the concepts and APIs showcased in previous unit tests.
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