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👋 there! My name’s Daniel. A brief blurb about me: I’m a data scientist building GenAI products in the b2b software space. I get excited about technology that transforms how work gets done for the better.

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Evaluating LLMs with Chat Templates

LLMs are typically finetuned on chat-templated datasets, which convert conversations into strings ready for text generation. Matching this format is standard at prediction time, as deviations are often noted to hurt performance. Here, we test this theory using an instruction-following benchmark and the best open-source LLMs available at this time.

Work

  1. Company
    Parade.ai
    Role
    Data Science Lead
    Date
  2. Company
    West Monroe Partners
    Role
    Senior Data Scientist
    Date
  3. Company
    Understory.ai
    Role
    ML Engineer
    Date
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Education

  1. Institution
    University of California, Berkeley
    Degree
    Master of Science in Machine Learning
  2. Institution
    University of Pennsylvania
    Degree
    Bachelor of Arts in Earth Science