In the context of evaluating a fine-tuned LLM for a text classification task, which experimental design technique ensures robust performance estimation when dealing with imbalanced datasets?
Stratified k-fold cross-validation is a robust experimental design technique for evaluating machine learning models, especially on imbalanced datasets. It divides the dataset into k folds while preserving the class distribution in each fold, ensuring that the model is evaluated on representative samples of all classes. NVIDIA’s NeMo documentation on model evaluation recommends stratified cross-validation for tasks like text classification to obtain reliable performance estimates, particularly when classes are unevenly distributed (e.g., in sentiment analysis with few negative samples). Option A (single hold-out) is less robust, as it may not capture class imbalance. Option C (bootstrapping) introduces variability and is less suitable for imbalanced data. Option D (grid search) is for hyperparameter tuning, not performance estimation.
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