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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 (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.
Open paper
Not All That Is Fluent Is Factual: Investigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models in Academic Writing

Humam Khan, Md Tabrez Nafis, Shahab Saquib Sohail, Aqeel Khalique, Rehan Hasan Khan · May 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 65% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics General
  • Some of the most widely used evaluation metrics often fail to check errors which alter sentiment in machine-translated text.
Open paper
Correct Is Not Enough: Training Reasoning Planners with Executor-Grounded Rewards

Tianyang Han, Hengyu Shi, Junjie Hu, Xu Yang, Zhiling Wang, Junhao Su · May 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 65% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathLaw
  • Extensive experiments on code and math benchmarks show that this executor-grounded reasoning reward improves the two-stage planner-executor system over execution-only training, suggesting that reasoning supervision should evaluate not only…
Open paper

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 65% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • Multi-agent debate (MAD), and more broadly closed-system reasoning where agents iteratively transform each other's outputs, tends to preserve answer accuracy while degrading the reasoning behind those answers.
  • An R6 cohort study (Korean n=10x30 FEVER; English n=3x200 SciFact) finds inter-rater Fleiss kappa <= +0.018 with 0.8-1.4 Likert intra-rater shifts across language and domain -- the human agreement that faithfulness metrics have been…
Open paper
Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tasks with Large-Scale File Dependencies

Zirui Tang, Xuanhe Zhou, Yumou Liu, Linchun Li, Weizheng Wang, Hongzhang Huang · May 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 62% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating General
  • To this end, we introduce Workspace-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on Workspace Learning invOlving Large-Scale File Dependencies.
  • We evaluate 4 popular agent harnesses and 7 foundation models.
Open paper
Personalized RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models with Human Aligned Personalization

Qiyao Ma, Dechen Gao, Rui Cai, Boqi Zhao, Hanchu Zhou, Junshan Zhang · Apr 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Human EvalAutomatic Metrics General
  • Pluralistic alignment has emerged as a critical frontier in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), with reward models (RMs) serving as a central mechanism for capturing diverse human values.
  • To bridge this gap, we introduce Personalized RewardBench, a novel benchmark designed to rigorously assess reward models' capacity to model personalized preferences.
Open paper
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 (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…
Open paper
QED-Nano: Teaching a Tiny Model to Prove Hard Theorems

LM-Provers, Yuxiao Qu, Amrith Setlur, Jasper Dekoninck, Edward Beeching, Jia Li · Apr 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • To support further research on open mathematical reasoning, we release the full QED-Nano pipeline, including the QED-Nano and QED-Nano-SFT models, the FineProofs-SFT and FineProofs-RL datasets, and the training and evaluation code.
Open paper
Paper Reconstruction Evaluation: Evaluating Presentation and Hallucination in AI-written Papers

Atsuyuki Miyai, Mashiro Toyooka, Zaiying Zhao, Kenta Watanabe, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Coding
  • We introduce Paper Reconstruction Evaluation (PaperRecon), an evaluation framework in which an overview (overview.md) is created from an existing paper, after which an agent generates a full paper based on the overview and minimal…
  • For evaluation, we introduce PaperWrite-Bench, a benchmark of 51 papers from top-tier venues across diverse domains published after 2025.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics General
  • As Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities advance, the demand for high-quality annotation of exponentially increasing text corpora has outpaced human capacity, leading to the widespread adoption of LLMs in automatic evaluation and…
  • However, proprietary LLMs often exhibit systematic biases that diverge from human expert consensus, lacks reproducibility, and raises data privacy concerns.
Open paper
LLM Essay Scoring Under Holistic and Analytic Rubrics: Prompt Effects and Bias

Filip J. Kucia, Anirban Chakraborty, Anna Wróblewska · Mar 31, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Human Eval General
  • We present a systematic evaluation of instruction-tuned LLMs across three open essay-scoring datasets (ASAP 2.0, ELLIPSE, and DREsS) that cover both holistic and analytic scoring.
  • Our results show that strong open-weight models achieve moderate to high agreement with humans on holistic scoring (Quadratic Weighted Kappa about 0.6), but this does not transfer uniformly to analytic scoring.
Open paper
CounselReflect: A Toolkit for Auditing Mental-Health Dialogues

Yahan Li, Chaohao Du, Zeyang Li, Christopher Chun Kuizon, Shupeng Cheng, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang · Mar 31, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric RatingExpert Verification Human Eval Web Browsing Coding
  • The system integrates two families of evaluation signals: (i) 12 model-based metrics produced by task-specific predictors, and (ii) rubric-based metrics that extend coverage via a literature-derived library (69 metrics) and user-defined…
  • Human evaluation includes a user study with 20 participants and an expert review with 6 mental-health professionals, suggesting that CounselReflect supports understandable, usable, and trustworthy auditing.
Open paper
Think-with-Rubrics: From External Evaluator to Internal Reasoning Guidance

Jiachen Yu, Zhihao Xu, Junjie Wang, Yujiu Yang · May 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating General
  • Experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that Think-with-Rubrics consistently outperforms the Rubric-as-Reward baseline supervised by golden rubrics by an average of 3.87 points.
Open paper
Aggregate vs. Personalized Judges in Business Idea Evaluation: Evidence from Expert Disagreement

Wataru Hirota, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma, Kosuke Takahashi, Takahiro Omi, Kosuke Arima · Apr 24, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Rubric RatingExpert Verification General
  • Unlike standard NLP benchmarks, business idea evaluation relies on multi-dimensional criteria such as feasibility, novelty, differentiation, user need, and market size, and expert judgments often disagree.
  • This paper studies a methodological question raised by such disagreement: should an automatic judge approximate an aggregate consensus, or model evaluators individually?
Open paper
Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Evaluation Framework

Tharindu Kumarage, Lisa Bauer, Yao Ma, Dan Rosen, Yashasvi Raghavendra Guduri, Anna Rumshisky · Apr 23, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating General
  • To address this gap, we introduce ESRRSim, a taxonomy-driven agentic framework for automated behavioral risk evaluation.
  • Evaluation across 11 reasoning LLMs reveals substantial variation in risk profiles (detection rates ranging 14.45%-72.72%), with dramatic generational improvements suggesting models may increasingly recognize and adapt to evaluation…
Open paper
Bootstrapping Post-training Signals for Open-ended Tasks via Rubric-based Self-play on Pre-training Text

Chengyu Huang, Sheng-Yen Chou, Zhengxin Zhang, Claire Cardie · Apr 21, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating MathCoding
  • A key benefit of self-play for post-training LLMs is its minimal supervision costs: self-play avoids the need for high-quality input-output pairs traditionally constructed by humans or expensive proprietary models.
  • We propose POP, a self-play framework that uses the same LLM to synthesize evaluation rubrics along with each input-output pair.
Open paper
FrontierFinance: A Long-Horizon Computer-Use Benchmark of Real-World Financial Tasks

Michael Krumdick, Varshini Reddy, Shivani Chaudhary, William Day, Maarij Ahmed, Hayan Haqqi · Apr 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 55% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Long Horizon General
  • To address this, we introduce FrontierFinance, a long-horizon benchmark of 25 complex financial modeling tasks across five core finance models, requiring an average of over 18 hours of skilled human labor per task to complete.
  • We demonstrate that our human experts both receive higher scores on average, and are more likely to provide client-ready outputs than current state-of-the-art systems.
Open paper
Optimsyn: Influence-Guided Rubrics Optimization for Synthetic Data Generation

Zhiting Fan, Ruizhe Chen, Tianxiang Hu, Ru Peng, Zenan Huang, Haokai Xu · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 52% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Rubric RatingCritique Edit Law
  • However, high-quality SFT data in knowledge-intensive domains such as humanities, social sciences, medicine, law, and finance is scarce because expert curation is expensive, privacy constraints are strict, and label consistency is hard to…
Open paper
Training data generation for context-dependent rubric-based short answer grading

Pavel Šindelář, Dávid Slivka, Christopher Bouma, Filip Prášil, Ondřej Bojar · Mar 30, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Rubric Rating).

Score: 52% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating General
  • However, having to avoid language differences and annotator bias makes the grading of student answers challenging.
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