arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Evaluating Rubric Generation with Interventional Transfer

The paper introduces Interventional Transfer (IT), a method for evaluating rubric generation by assessing how two rubrics respond to perturbations that cause a pass/fail shift. IT reveals asymmetries in rubrics generated by different LLMs when applied to HealthBench, showing that improvements on one rubric do not reliably transfer to the other. The study contrasts IT with existing evaluation approaches, highlighting its ability to uncover these asymmetries.

By Erik Skalnes, Layne C. Price, Raviteja Anantha, Michael Oberst
arXiv AI
Oct 31

Rubricon: Automated Rubric Generation and Refinement for LLM Evaluation and Training

Rubricon is a pipeline that automatically generates and refines discriminative rubrics for evaluating large language models (LLMs) without requiring human preference labels or manual rubric creation. It samples multiple rubrics, selects the most discriminative ones, adds missing criteria, prunes misaligned or shallow criteria, and uses LLM self‑critique and observed pass rates to guide refinement. Across diverse LLM benchmarks, Rubricon’s rubrics achieve 9% better alignment with expert‑authored rubrics than other synthetic methods, and training a Qwen3.5‑9B model on HealthBench with Rubricon rubrics improves performance by 4.5% over the best alternative synthetic generator.

By Ulyana Tkachenko, Hui Wen Goh, Guram Gogia, Jonas Mueller
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Can LLM-as-a-Judge Reliably Verify Rubrics in Agentic Scenarios?

The paper introduces RuVerBench, a benchmark with 2,458 instances for evaluating the reliability of Large Language Models acting as judges (LaaJ) in verifying rubric compliance within agentic scenarios such as deep research and agentic coding. It systematically meta‑evaluates frontier LLMs, revealing that even the most advanced models perform well yet still produce substantial noise. The study also examines how prompt design, batching, and majority voting affect verification accuracy, noting that weaker models are more prompt‑sensitive, batched verification trades accuracy for efficiency, and majority voting offers diminishing returns.

By Yangda Peng, Yunjia Qi, Haotian Xia, Guanzhong He, Xintong Shi, Richeng Xuan, Songyuanyi Lu, Yixian Liu, Zhichao Hu, Yuhong Liu, Hao Peng