Dr. Percy Liang
Associate Professor, Stanford University | Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models
Sources checkedDr. Percy Liang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Stanford University and the Director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM). His research spans natural language processing, foundation model evaluation, transparency, and statistical robustness. He is the lead organizer of HELM (Holistic Evaluation of Language Models).
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Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM)
A multi-dimensional benchmark evaluating foundational LLMs across 42 real-world scenarios and 7 evaluation metrics to eliminate selective benchmark reporting.
Continuous maintenance required as frontier model providers iterate closed alignment weights.
Context: Empirical evaluation suite covering all major commercial and open foundation models.
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