arXiv Computation and Language

Query Language Sensitivity in Automated Sentiment Scores of LLM Responses

The study analyzes 12,933 responses from a design crossing 20 brand labels, eight query languages, three provider aliases, and 15 prompt identifiers, using a multilingual sentiment classifier to produce signed confidence scores. A crossed linear mixed model attributes 26.49% of variance to query language and 1.46% to brand, but when English is excluded the language contribution drops to 5.07% and brand to 2.23%, indicating that the variance decomposition is highly sensitive to the inclusion of English. The findings highlight that automated sentiment scores can vary due to both answer content and the measurement instrument, and that English responses are not necessarily more negative toward brands. whyItMatters":"The results caution against drawing substantive conclusions from automated sentiment scores without accounting for language and instrument effects, as these factors can disproportionately influence the measured sentiment."

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

System Attribution in LLM Brand Recommendations: Single Responses Identify the System, Aggregated Brand Profiles Do Not Transfer

The study evaluates whether aggregated brand recommendation profiles can identify the language model that generated them. Using 6,475 responses from five deployed endpoints, a character‑n‑gram classifier accurately attributes single responses to the correct system (97.84% accuracy). However, when responses are aggregated into domain‑condition units, the classifier’s performance drops to 66.53%, and a forest model misclassifies all gift‑domain units, indicating that aggregated brand behaviour does not reliably reveal the underlying system.

By Dmitrij \.Zatuchin
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Lower-Resource, Higher Scores: Language Bias in LLM Evaluators

The paper demonstrates that large language model (LLM) evaluators, whether reward‑model based or prompted LLM‑as‑a‑Judge, exhibit significant language bias in multilingual settings. Experiments with semantically identical instruction‑response pairs across 23 languages reveal that lower‑resource languages receive higher scores, a bias that persists across eight open‑weight evaluators and is not detectable by standard pairwise accuracy metrics. The authors link the bias to model uncertainty and language identity, showing it cannot be explained by content difficulty alone.

By Ej Zhou, Lucas Resck, Zheng Hui, Anna Korhonen
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

Prompting Strategy Effects Depend on the Judge: A Multilingual Study of LLM-as-a-Judge Robustness

The study investigates how different prompting strategies affect large language model (LLM) judges across multiple languages and tasks. Using a benchmark of 9 prompting strategies, 4 open-weight judges, 27 languages, and 4 tasks, the authors collected over 1 million pointwise scores validated against human judgments. Results show that prompting effectiveness is highly dependent on the judge model, can reverse direction across judges, and becomes less stable in low‑resource languages, indicating that prompt choice must be tailored to the specific evaluation setting.

By Asal Mehrabi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Diagnosing Model--Item Interactions in Language Model Benchmarks with LSIRM

The paper introduces the latent space item response model (LSIRM) as a tool for uncovering how language models differ on specific benchmark items. By mapping 1,348 models across 5,761 BBH items and comparing scoring methods across BBH, GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and MuSR, the authors show that items with similar correct answers cluster together, especially when scored by option labels. LSIRM separates a model’s tendency to perform better on certain answer categories from other performance differences, revealing that small changes in scoring can dramatically alter model rankings.

By Jinwen Luo, Han Jiang, Ziang Xiao, Susu Zhang
arXiv AI
6d ago

One Confidence Threshold, Unequal Coverage: Language Gaps in Typed Decision Interfaces and How Translating Inputs Reduces Them

The study evaluates whether a single confidence threshold in typed decision interfaces treats all languages equally. Using 1,000 items in 51 languages across three vendors, it finds that English consistently achieves higher coverage—clearing the 0.9 threshold 8.6–11.7 percentage points more often than other languages—despite similar accuracy. Even when thresholds are re‑weighted or calibrated per language, the gap persists, and translating inputs into English reduces but does not eliminate it. The authors recommend reporting per‑language coverage at the operating threshold.

By Junwei Yao, Yongxi Zhou, Zike Yang, Zhijun Wang, Jianan Liu, Yanxian Chen, Wenbo Ye
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Anchoring Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge Systems: Prior Scores Compromise Evaluation Independence

The study investigates how prior scores influence large language model (LLM) judgments in the LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm. By testing three prompt conditions—no metadata, revision framing, and anchored metadata containing prior scores—the authors find that prior scores systematically bias evaluations, shifting ratings toward those scores across 192,000 attempts. The bias also affects categorical decisions, blocking 48% of error corrections and flipping 10.18% of correct judgments, and is not mitigated by Chain-of-Thought or a warning, underscoring the need for careful context engineering.

By Ante Kapetanovic, Kemal Altwlkany, Andro Mercep, Tomislav Duricic, Emanuel Lacic
arXiv AI
6d ago

Prompt Lottery in LLM-as-a-Judge: Measuring and Mitigating Sensitivity to Syntactic Rephrasing

The paper introduces the "Prompt Lottery" phenomenon, where paraphrastic rephrasings of judge prompts in LLM-as-a-Judge (LLMaJ) lead to inconsistent judgments and can even reverse model rankings. A large-scale study across various tasks, judge families, and model backbones demonstrates that these prompt variations significantly alter evaluation outcomes. A user study shows that LLMaJ judges are 6–9 times more sensitive to prompt rephrasings than humans, and that aggregating multiple prompts improves robustness by focusing on consistent judgments.

By Ilija Subasic, Brett Levert, Andrew Rabinovich, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Zhao Chen