arXiv:2601. 21817v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on open-ended tasks without ground-truth labels is increasingly done via the LLM-as-a-judge paradigm.
By Mingyuan Xu, Xinzi Tan, Jiawei Wu, Doudou Zhou
The paper introduces MoPLEx, an expectation‑maximization algorithm for learning mixtures of Plackett‑Luce models from multi‑way ranking data. It augments rankings with synthetic responses from a base language model and uses a gradient‑based estimation to reduce inference cost, enabling efficient fitting of large‑scale models. Experiments show the method achieves low probability estimation error and improves clustering and ranking accuracy by 43.7% and 15.2% over baselines.
By Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang, Hongyang R. Zhang
arXiv:2508. 11847v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a method for evaluating the robustness of widely used LLM ranking systems -- variants of a Bradley--Terry model -- to dropping a worst-case very small fraction of preference data.
By Jenny Y. Huang, Yunyi Shen, Dennis Wei, Tamara Broderick
arXiv:2608.25200v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We study learning a mixture of $k$ Plackett-Luce models from multi-way ranking responses from annotators that may represent heterogeneous und...
By Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang, Hongyang R. Zhang
arXiv:2609.36740v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many recommender systems such as for e-commerce and news platforms aim to provide users with rankings they are likely to interact with. Off-Policy Lear...
By Ren Kishimoto, Koichi Tanaka, Haruka Kiyohara, Yusuke Narita, Yasuo Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Yuta Saito
arXiv:2602. 02898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language model benchmarks are pervasive and computationally-efficient proxies for real-world performance.
By Marco Gutierrez, Xinyi Leng, Hannah Cyberey, Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Ahmed Alaa, Thomas Hartvigsen
arXiv:2607. 20205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large language models.
By Yihang Gao, Vincent Y. F. Tan
The paper introduces DIAL, a framework that uses large language models (LLMs) as judges while mitigating position bias and aligning their judgments with human preferences. DIAL separates judge‑specific position effects, learns shared structure in debiased LLM preferences, and adaptively calibrates this structure toward human targets using limited human comparisons. Experiments on simulations and three human‑preference benchmarks show that DIAL remains robust to unbalanced response order, achieves strong human‑aligned rankings with few labels, and adapts when LLM information is imperfect, supported by a real‑data study of over 410K judgments from 21 LLM judges.
By Zesheng Cai, Yingqi Fan, Sichang Chen, Jin-Hong Du
arXiv:2512. 03019v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Thinking Large Language Models (LLMs) used as judges for pairwise preferences remain noisy at the single-sample level, and common aggregation rules (majority vote, soft self-consistency, or instruction-based self-aggregation) are inconsistent when ties are allowed.
By Hamid Dadkhahi, Firas Trabelsi, Parker Riley, Juraj Juraska, Mehdi Mirzazadeh
arXiv:2601.13885v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) has proven effective for efficient LLM evaluation on multiple-choice benchmarks, but modern LLM evaluatio...
By Esma Balk{\i}r, Alice Pernthaller, Marco Basaldella, Jos\'e Hern\'andez-Orallo, Nigel Collier
arXiv:2606. 04387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sales lead conversion in high-stakes domains (e.
By Chenyu Zhang, Yiwen Liu, Yin Sun, Xinyuan Zhang, Yuji Cao, Junming Jiao, Juyi Qiao
arXiv:2606. 07492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ranking of recommendation algorithms is a challenging problem since model performance is sensitive to dataset characteristics such as sparsity, sequential structure, and scale.
By Ekaterina Grishina, Stepan Kuznetsov, Askar Tsyganov, Ilya Ivanov, Daria Korovaitceva, Margarita Rusanova, Uliana Parkina, Alexander Derevyagin, Evgeny Frolov, Sergey Samsonov, Anton Lysenko