# Reference-based scoring

/'reh.fer.uhns bayst 'skaw.rihng/ Scoring that compares output to a ground truth/expected output. It works best when "correctness" is well-defined. (noun)

“We use reference-based scoring for extraction tasks with known answers.”

## Related Evaluation terms

- [Absolute scoring](/content/encyclopedia/absolute-scoring/index.html)
- [Agent](/content/encyclopedia/agent/index.html)
- [Alignment](/content/encyclopedia/alignment/index.html)
- [Annotation schema](/content/encyclopedia/annotation-schema/index.html)
- [Baseline](/content/encyclopedia/baseline/index.html)
- [Baseline experiment](/content/encyclopedia/baseline-experiment/index.html)
- [Benchmark](/content/encyclopedia/benchmark/index.html)
- [Calibration](/content/encyclopedia/calibration/index.html)
- [CI/CD integration](/content/encyclopedia/ci-cd-integration/index.html)
- [Coherence](/content/encyclopedia/coherence/index.html)
- [Confidence interval](/content/encyclopedia/confidence-interval/index.html)
- [Eval](/content/encyclopedia/eval/index.html)
- [Eval harness](/content/encyclopedia/eval-harness/index.html)
- [Eval leakage](/content/encyclopedia/eval-leakage/index.html)
- [Experiment](/content/encyclopedia/experiment/index.html)
- [Factuality](/content/encyclopedia/factuality/index.html)
- [Failure mode](/content/encyclopedia/failure-mode/index.html)
- [Faithfulness](/content/encyclopedia/faithfulness/index.html)
- [Feedback signal](/content/encyclopedia/feedback-signal/index.html)
- [Groundedness](/content/encyclopedia/groundedness/index.html)
- [Hallucination](/content/encyclopedia/hallucination/index.html)
- [Inter-annotator agreement (IAA)](/content/encyclopedia/inter-annotator-agreement-iaa/index.html)
- [LLM-as-a-judge](/content/encyclopedia/llm-as-a-judge/index.html)
- [Loop](/content/encyclopedia/loop/index.html)
- [Model comparison](/content/encyclopedia/model-comparison/index.html)
- [Multimodal](/content/encyclopedia/multimodal/index.html)
- [Non-determinism](/content/encyclopedia/non-determinism/index.html)
- [Offline evaluation](/content/encyclopedia/offline-evaluation/index.html)
- [Pairwise evaluation](/content/encyclopedia/pairwise-evaluation/index.html)
- [Pass@k](/content/encyclopedia/pass-at-k/index.html)
- [Playground](/content/encyclopedia/playground/index.html)
- [Quality gate](/content/encyclopedia/quality-gate/index.html)
- [RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)](/content/encyclopedia/rag-retrieval-augmented-generation/index.html)
- [RAG evaluation](/content/encyclopedia/rag-evaluation/index.html)
- [Reference-free scoring](/content/encyclopedia/reference-free-scoring/index.html)
- [Regression testing](/content/encyclopedia/regression-testing/index.html)
- [Release criteria](/content/encyclopedia/release-criteria/index.html)
- [Remote evaluation](/content/encyclopedia/remote-evaluation/index.html)
- [Rubric](/content/encyclopedia/rubric/index.html)
- [Safety](/content/encyclopedia/safety/index.html)
- [Score distribution](/content/encyclopedia/score-distribution/index.html)
- [Scorer](/content/encyclopedia/scorer/index.html)
- [Semantic failure](/content/encyclopedia/semantic-failure/index.html)
- [Signal-to-noise ratio](/content/encyclopedia/signal-to-noise-ratio/index.html)
- [Task (eval task)](/content/encyclopedia/task-eval-task/index.html)
- [Toxicity score](/content/encyclopedia/toxicity-score/index.html)