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Definition

The exact match test assesses if two strings are identical in every aspect, including capitalization, punctuation, and spacing.

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Taxonomy

  • Task types: LLM.
  • Availability: and .

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Why it matters

  • Exact match provides the strictest measure of text generation accuracy, requiring perfect correspondence between generated and reference text.
  • This metric is particularly useful for tasks where precision is critical, such as code generation, structured data extraction, or specific formatting requirements.
  • It helps identify when your model produces outputs that are close but not exactly correct, which might be important for certain applications.

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Required columns

To compute this metric, your dataset must contain the following columns:
  • Outputs: The generated text from your LLM
  • Ground truths: The reference/expected text to compare against

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Test configuration examples

If you are writing a tests.json, here are a few valid configurations for the exact match test: 
[
  {
    "name": "Mean exact match above 0.8",
    "description": "Ensure that the mean exact match score is above 0.8",
    "type": "performance",
    "subtype": "metricThreshold",
    "thresholds": [
      {
        "insightName": "metrics",
        "insightParameters": null,
        "measurement": "meanExactMatch",
        "operator": ">",
        "value": 0.8
      }
    ],
    "subpopulationFilters": null,
    "mode": "development",
    "usesValidationDataset": true,
    "usesTrainingDataset": false,
    "usesMlModel": false,
    "syncId": "b4dee7dc-4f15-48ca-a282-63e2c04e0689"
  }
]