Independent benchmarking is heating up in the LLM era, and a community-driven site is making it practical. The project, llm-stats.com, tracks 348 benchmarks across 188 models, with all data open on Github and every score anchored to its source [1]. They’re also exploring reproducible benchmarks that go beyond press-release claims and comparing performance across inference providers [1].
Why it matters: labs cherry-pick benchmarks and comparison methods. A community-driven approach aims for transparent, cross-model comparisons with held-out data—helpful for practitioners choosing tools for real tasks [1].
Task-specific example: In Named Entity Recognition, a 5-phase pipeline uses Fuse.js for fast fuzzy matching, then a masked LLM to surface unknown entities, followed by contextual sentiment, summarization, and storage in MongoDB [2].
Hands-on scale: a cost-conscious build with Dell T7910 and five RTX 3090 GPUs delivers 96GB VRAM and costs about 3.25 lakhs (~$4.6k). Networking choices—up to 10Gbps, bonded links—expose how throughput and topology matter for multi-node benchmarks [3].
Bottom line: transparent cross-model benchmarking, with semi-private, reproducible tests and a readily expandable suite, is the compass practitioners need as the LLM landscape evolves [1].
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Made a website to track 348 benchmarks across 188 models.
A site tracks 348 benchmarks across 188 models; aims independent, reproducible benchmarks; welcomes feedback and discusses future improvements.
View source[p] A multi-pass pipeline for Named Entity Recognition using fuzzy matching and a masked LLM to analyze 25,000+ Reddit comments
Discussion critiques using LLMs for NER in noisy Reddit data; suggests hybrids, compares with deterministic methods, questions necessity, explores alternatives.
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India hardware limits; builds 96GB VRAM with 5x3090; compares vLLM, llama.cpp; discusses MoE, 230B/120B models, 10GbE networking, cost heat noise
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