arXiv AI By Zhiyu Chen, Keyu Zhao, Jigao Fu, Dong Liang, Yanbiao Wu, Jiaoyang Li, Haidong Xue, Xinhua Zeng, Yuanyi Zhen, Fengli Xu, Yong Li

Ideation Arena: Evaluating LLM Generated Research Ideas with Battle-style Human Expert Assessment

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Ideation Arena is a battle-style platform that evaluates research ideas generated by large language models (LLMs) and research agents through pairwise human assessment. The system builds shared literature contexts, collects over 6,000 double-blind comparisons from 105 computer science researchers, and constructs an Elo rating leaderboard to rank proposal-stage expert preferences. It also introduces Ideation Arena Eval, a benchmark to test whether automated evaluators align with human preferences, finding that current LLM judges achieve at best 72.56% Soft Accuracy on overall quality.

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