Sanmi Koyejo | Beyond Benchmarks: Building a Science of AI Measurement
The widepread deployment of AI systems in critical domains demands more rigorous approaches to evaluating their capabilities and safety.
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The widepread deployment of AI systems in critical domains demands more rigorous approaches to evaluating their capabilities and safety.
The Center for Decoding the Universe brings together researchers across scientific disciplines to answer the biggest questions about our Universe by leveraging complex data with the most advanced computational methods.

The Center for Decoding the Universe brings together researchers across scientific disciplines to answer the biggest questions about our Universe by leveraging complex data with the most advanced computational methods.
This workshop will cover how NVIDIA RAPIDS offers a seamless experience to enable GPU-acceleration for many existing data science tasks with zero code changes. You will learn how to use GPU-accelerated tools to conduct data science faster, leading to more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective results!

This workshop will cover how NVIDIA RAPIDS offers a seamless experience to enable GPU-acceleration for many existing data science tasks with zero code changes. You will learn how to use GPU-accelerated tools to conduct data science faster, leading to more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective results!
While current evaluation practices rely on static benchmarks, these methods face fundamental efficiency, reliability, and real-world relevance challenges. This talk presents a path toward a measurement framework that bridges established psychometric principles with modern AI evaluation needs. We demonstrate how techniques from Item Response Theory, amortized computation, and predictability analysis can substantially improve the rigor and efficiency of AI evaluation. Through case studies in safety assessment and capability measurement, we show how this approach can enable more reliable, scalable, and meaningful evaluation of AI systems. This work points toward a broader vision: evolving AI evaluation from a collection of benchmarks into a rigorous measurement science that can effectively guide research, deployment, and policy decisions.
