Google Research AI blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Our experimental evaluation shows that within these constraints we are able to discover top-performance models. Experimental results When comparing NAS algorithms, we evaluate the following metrics: Quality : What is the most accurate model that the algorithm can find? Comparison on models under different #MAdds.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Results We evaluate REVEAL on knowledge-based visual question answering tasks using OK-VQA and A-OKVQA datasets. REVEAL achieves higher accuracy in comparison to previous works including ViLBERT , LXMERT , ClipCap , KRISP and GPV-2. We also evaluate REVEAL on the image captioning benchmarks using MSCOCO and NoCaps dataset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of ROI benchmarks. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 12, 2025

Published on March 12, 2025 5:56 PM GMT Summary The Stages-Oversight benchmark from the Situational Awareness Dataset tests whether large language models (LLMs) can distinguish between evaluation prompts (such as benchmark questions) and deployment prompts (real-world user inputs).

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Human object recognition alignment To find out how aligned ViT-22B classification decisions are with human classification decisions, we evaluated ViT-22B fine-tuned with different resolutions on out-of-distribution (OOD) datasets for which human comparison data is available via the model-vs-human toolbox. Cat or elephant? Car or clock?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Knowing what work you need done and the quality of work you’d like to receive and set benchmarks to measure outcomes. You should also review how you’ve traditionally done the work or solicited the input or encouraged the action in the past and note what worked and what didn’t work previously to use as a comparison to crowdsourced efforts.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Comparison of four prompting methods, (a) Standard, (b) Chain of thought (CoT, Reason Only), (c) Act-only, and (d) ReAct, solving a HotpotQA question. A comparison of the ReAct ( top ) and CoT ( bottom ) reasoning trajectories on an example from Fever (observation for ReAct is omitted to reduce space).

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

This model is a Transformer-based architecture that uses a dynamic set of tokens to create elastic input sequences, providing a unique perspective on adaptivity in comparison to previous works. Evaluation on the parity task. Evaluation on image classification We also evaluate AdaTape on the image classification task.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 21, 2023

To improve a model for this use case, we created the Real Conversation test set to benchmark performance. Results To evaluate the adapted USM, we compared it to older ASR models using the two test sets described above. We have previously shown that this approach works very well to adapt ASR models to disordered speech.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape the design of computer systems. It comprises two main components: 1) the ArchGym environment and 2) the ArchGym agent.

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M+R

JUNE 18, 2024

Cookieless reporting: what’s your approach, and what are your benchmarks? The point is, a fractured landscape makes comparisons across vendors harder. This is also a good time to look at your attribution model and consider investing in media mix modeling to help you evaluate performance across platforms without cookies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). I agree with you that it is meaningless to use the numbers to get into "mine is bigger than yours" comparisons to measure quality or popularity.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? At the 2022 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) conference, a few fellow evaluators and I discussed the findings of the AAPIP report Seeking to Soar.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As an example, for graphs with 10T edges, we demonstrate ~100-fold improvements in pairwise similarity comparisons and significant running time speedups with negligible quality loss. We find that academic GNN benchmark datasets exist in regions where model rankings do not change. All transactions are stored to allow fault-tolerance.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog we take a technical deep dive into the cost and performance of their serverless SQL warehouse product by utilizing the industry standard TPC-DI benchmark. In the table above, we look at the cost comparison of on-demand vs. spot costs as well. What are Databricks’ SQL warehouse offerings? AWS EC2 bill). Image by author.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We think this adversarial style of evaluation and iteration is necessary to ensure an AI system has a low probability of catastrophic failure. Wed like to support more such evaluations, especially on scalable oversight protocols like AI debate. and Which rules are LLM agents happy to break, and which are they more committed to? .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Performance comparison between the PaLM 540B parameter model and the prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 58 tasks from the Big-bench suite. Minerva 540B significantly improves state-of-the-art performance on STEM evaluation datasets. We show the MattNet results for comparison. See paper for details.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Benchmark Studies and Examples. In the US, there are several terrific benchmark studies of nonprofits and technology , including some on social networking but these are focused mostly on US nonprofits. I spent some time searching for similar studies or compilations for international organizations as well as some specific examples.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2025

Evaluate your websites revenue and costs holistically to determine the current return on various investments made to build and improve the site. Your websites donation page conversion rate is among the most important metrics to track when evaluating your nonprofit websites ROI. Prioritize conversion optimization.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Are you ready to evaluate the success of your major gifts program? Why is it important to track fundraising benchmarks? But, to be honest, carefully tracking and evaluating each and every point would be more stress than it’s worth! Let’s look at this in comparison to some of the metrics discussed above.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve created this guide to nonprofit CRM options, through which you’ll review the basics of CRM software and a side-by-side comparison of the top solutions through the following points: Overview of CRM for Nonprofits. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Want to learn more about the nonprofit email benchmarks that your organization should be using to measure success? If your abandonment rate is significantly higher than your conversion rate, you’ll know that it’s time to evaluate your donation form and look for areas to improve. Download the full report today!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. On a related note, I think a benchmarking study might be a useful exercise for nonprofits. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change. This could ultimately be detrimental to the very people you are trying to help.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A review of the M16, then, isn’t just an opportunity to evaluate Asus’ product. Intra-Asus comparisons aside, six hours isn’t a great result for a laptop that’s supposed to be able to double as a primary driver when needed (which is the primary benefit of the 16:10 screen). You’ll want to turn on Silent mode if you’re not gaming. (To

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. I've been doing the ROI analysis openly on my blog for the past two years and the presentation uses a slightly more refined version of this benchmarking process. Benchmark studies. Use of metrics to measure your results. Communicating the results.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In those days, we were tackling terrible Android and BlackBerry tablets, evaluating the first wave of Intel ultrabooks , and heaping praise on the then-revolutionary Galaxy Nexus. It was the first time The Verge evaluated VR as a product, not just a dream. Even figuring out how to photograph the Rift was an exhilarating experience.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution. Alternatively, you can run two different email campaigns and compare their performance, then use that comparison to inform future campaigns.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. When trying to measure success, it helps to have benchmarks —and it helps even more if those benchmarks speak specifically to your sector.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? How will they to be evaluated and organized? ” What are the things donors want to see? Does that make sense?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the quintessential benchmark of training a deep RL agent on 50+ Atari 2600 games in ALE for 200M frames (the standard protocol) requires 1,000+ GPU days. Given the PVRL algorithm requirements, we evaluate whether existing approaches, designed with closely related goals, will suffice. Left: Fine-tuning DQN with Adam.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 7, 2023

These layout analysis efforts are parallel to OCR and have been largely developed as independent techniques that are typically evaluated only on document images. Below we summarize the characteristics of HierText in comparison with other OCR datasets. As such, the synergy between OCR and layout analysis remains largely under-explored.

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DataRobot

JUNE 24, 2022

Investors and developers need to understand where to acquire real estate assets and when to trigger development, while portfolio managers need to optimize their holdings and recurrently evaluate real estate conditions to decide if they should divest or not. Real estate developers aim to identify underused but high-value land for development.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 26, 2025

And the few positive applications with clear comparisons to baselines, like Karvonen et al , largely occur in somewhat niche or contrived settings (e.g. Both of these approaches lead to improvements on our probing benchmarks relative to the baseline GemmaScope SAEs, matching Kissane et al , as discussed in the section below.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The reality is that I collaborate with strong partners on data and the associated analytics then spend the time needed to understand and evaluate our fundraising programs at Project HOPE. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me.

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