arXiv Machine Learning

Ensemble Diversity Optimization for Subjective Supervision

arXiv:2607. 08493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subjective NLP tasks often exhibit systematic annotator disagreement, requiring models that represent uncertainty rather than collapse it.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Unifying Conformal Language Tasks with In-Context Ensembles

The paper introduces the Conformal Relevance framework, which employs in-context learning example curation and ensembling to generate a score function that preserves coverage while enhancing conciseness for NLP tasks such as summarization and extractive question answering. Unlike previous methods that rely on labor-intensive, task‑specific prompt engineering, this approach requires minimal manual input. The authors validate the framework across seven NLP tasks and provide a theoretical analysis of how diversity in ensembled conformal scores can improve worst‑case sentence scores, including a saturation bound on ensemble gains.

By Xiao Shi Huang, Chen-Yuan Lin, Bruce Kuwahara, Kin Kwan Leung, Jesse C. Cresswell
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

Post-hoc Alignment of LLM-judges to Human Judgment Distribution

The paper introduces NAPHA, a lightweight post‑hoc alignment method that improves large language model (LLM) predictions of human judgment distributions (HJD) by matching LLM output distributions to HJD through entropy‑based class assignment and specialized alignment models. Experiments on five datasets show that while LLMs perform near human‑level on hard‑label tasks, they struggle with soft‑label predictions, and NAPHA consistently enhances soft‑label accuracy, especially on high‑entropy instances. The study also demonstrates that better entropy class prediction can further boost NAPHA’s effectiveness.

By Sebastian Steindl, Nikos Voskarides, Alberto Gasparin, Diego Marcheggiani
arXiv AI
Jun 2

STABLEVAL: Disagreement-Aware and Stable Evaluation of AI Systems

arXiv:2605. 02122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human evaluation remains the primary standard for assessing modern AI systems, yet annotator disagreement, bias, and variability make system rankings fragile under standard majority vote aggregation.

By Akash Bonagiri, Gerard Janno Anderias, Saee Patil, Angelina Lai, Devang Borkar, Gezheng Kang, Ishant Gandhi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun