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Quantifying the Statistical Effect of Rubric Modifications on Human-Autorater Agreement

Jessica Huynh, Alfredo Gomez, Athiya Deviyani, Renee Shelby, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Fernando Diaz · May 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 65% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics General
  • Autoraters, also referred to as LLM-as-judges, are increasingly used for evaluation and automated content moderation.
  • While these rubrics can be edited to improve the individual accuracy of both human and automated scoring, this approach may result in disagreement between the two scores, or with the associated holistic judgment.
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Self-Preference Bias in Rubric-Based Evaluation of Large Language Models

José Pombal, Ricardo Rei, André F. T. Martins · Apr 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Llm As Judge Medicine
  • We present the first study of SPB in rubric-based evaluation, an increasingly popular benchmarking paradigm where judges issue binary verdicts on individual evaluation criteria, instead of assigning holistic scores or rankings.
  • Using IFEval, a benchmark with programmatically verifiable rubrics, we show that SPB persists even when evaluation criteria are entirely objective: among rubrics where generators fail, judges can be up to 50\% more likely to incorrectly…
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EvoIdeator: Evolving Scientific Ideas through Checklist-Grounded Reinforcement Learning

Andreas Sauter, Yuyue Zhao, Jacopo Urbani, Wenxiang Hu, Zaiqiao Meng, Lun Zhou · Mar 23, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric RatingCritique Edit Llm As Judge General
  • EvoIdeator leverages a structured judge model to generate two synergistic signals: (1) lexicographic rewards for multi-dimensional optimization, and (2) fine-grained language feedback that offers span-level critiques regarding grounding,…
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Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Llm As Judge Medicine
  • We introduce ThReadMed-QA, a benchmark of 2,437 fully-answered patient-physician conversation threads extracted from r/AskDocs, comprising 8,204 question-answer pairs across up to 9 turns.
  • We evaluate five state-of-the-art LLMs -- GPT-5, GPT-4o, Claude Haiku, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Llama 3.3 70B -- on a stratified test split of 238 conversations (948 QA pairs) using a calibrated LLM-as-a-judge rubric grounded in physician…
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ClinConsensus: A Consensus-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Chinese Medical LLMs across Difficulty Levels

Xiang Zheng, Han Li, Wenjie Luo, Weiqi Zhai, Yiyuan Li, Chuanmiao Yan · Mar 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Llm As Judge Medicine
  • However, existing medical benchmarks remain largely static and task-isolated, failing to capture the openness, longitudinal structure, and safety-critical complexity of real-world clinical workflows.
  • We introduce ClinConsensus, a Chinese medical benchmark curated, validated, and quality-controlled by clinical experts.
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Open Rubric System: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with Pairwise Adaptive Rubric

Ruipeng Jia, Yunyi Yang, Yuxin Wu, Yongbo Gai, Siyuan Tao, Mengyu Zhou · Feb 15, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Llm As Judge General
  • To operationalize this view, we present the Open Rubric System (OpenRS), a plug-and-play, rubrics-based LLM-as-a-Judge framework built around Pairwise Adaptive Meta-Rubrics (PAMR) and lightweight Pointwise Verifiable Rubrics (PVRs), which…
  • To keep principles consistent yet editable across various domains, we introduce a two-level meta-rubric refinement pipeline (automated evolutionary refinement for general principles and a reproducible human-in-the-loop procedure for domain…
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Small Reward Models via Backward Inference

Yike Wang, Faeze Brahman, Shangbin Feng, Teng Xiao, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Yulia Tsvetkov · Feb 14, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Llm As Judge Coding
  • However, the dominant LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm relies on the strong reasoning capabilities of large models, while alternative approaches require reference responses or explicit rubrics, limiting flexibility and broader accessibility.
  • Evaluations across four domains using 13 small language models show that FLIP outperforms LLM-as-a-Judge baselines by an average of 79.6%.
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Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Rubric RatingCritique Edit Llm As Judge General
  • Through a large-scale study of 105,600 evaluation instances (32 LLMs \times 3 frontier judges \times 100 tasks \times 11 temperatures), we show that model-level agreement (Spearman ρ= 0.99) masks fragile sample-level agreement (Pearson r =…
  • Second, we demonstrate that dynamically generating evaluation rubrics grounded in domain knowledge produces more meaningful assessment.
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Build, Judge, Optimize: A Blueprint for Continuous Improvement of Multi-Agent Consumer Assistants

Alejandro Breen Herrera, Aayush Sheth, Steven G. Xu, Zhucheng Zhan, Charles Wright, Marcus Yearwood · Mar 3, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Llm As JudgeSimulation Env Long Horizon General
  • Conversational shopping assistants (CSAs) represent a compelling application of agentic AI, but moving from prototype to production reveals two underexplored challenges: how to evaluate multi-turn interactions and how to optimize tightly…
  • We introduce a multi-faceted evaluation rubric that decomposes end-to-end shopping quality into structured dimensions and develop a calibrated LLM-as-judge pipeline aligned with human annotations.
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PanCanBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Pancreatic Oncology

Yimin Zhao, Sheela R. Damle, Simone E. Dekker, Scott Geng, Karly Williams Silva, Jesse J Hubbard · Mar 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Rubric RatingExpert Verification Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics Medicine
  • Large language models (LLMs) have achieved expert-level performance on standardized examinations, yet multiple-choice accuracy poorly reflects real-world clinical utility and safety.
  • We evaluated 22 proprietary and open-source LLMs using an LLM-as-a-judge framework, measuring clinical completeness, factual accuracy, and web-search integration.
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HEART: A Unified Benchmark for Assessing Humans and LLMs in Emotional Support Dialogue

Laya Iyer, Kriti Aggarwal, Sanmi Koyejo, Gail Heyman, Desmond C. Ong, Subhabrata Mukherjee · Jan 9, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Human EvalLlm As Judge General
  • Despite rapid progress in language models, we still lack a clear way to understand how their abilities in these interpersonal domains compare to those of humans.
  • We introduce HEART, the first-ever framework that directly compares humans and LLMs on the same multi-turn emotional-support conversations.
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PoSh: Using Scene Graphs To Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge For Detailed Image Descriptions

Amith Ananthram, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Lorena A. Bradford, Julia Demarest, Adam Purvis, Keith Krut · Oct 21, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Llm As Judge, Rubric Rating).

Score: 53% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Human EvalLlm As Judge General
  • In this work, we introduce PoSh, a metric for detailed image description that uses scene graphs as structured rubrics to guide LLMs-as-a-Judge, producing aggregate scores grounded in fine-grained errors (e.g.
  • We show that PoSh achieves stronger correlations (+0.05 Spearman ρ) with the human judgments in DOCENT than the best open-weight alternatives, is robust to image type (using CapArena, an existing dataset of web imagery) and is a capable…
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