arXiv AI By Jos\'e Pombal, Ricardo Rei, Andr\'e F. T. Martins

Self-Preference Bias in Rubric-Based Evaluation of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2604. 06996v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-as-a-judge has become the de facto approach for evaluating LLM outputs.

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Sep 4

Judging LLM-as-a-Judge: Concerning Rubric Artifacts in LLM-based Automated Text Generation Evaluation

The paper examines LLM-as-a-Judge systems used to assess AI-generated text, questioning the assumption that judgments are derived from reasoning over responses and rubrics. It finds that classifiers trained solely on rubric text can predict judge outputs, indicating that rubrics contain recoverable evaluative signals independent of the responses. Counterfactual experiments show judges often fail to adjust decisions when either the response or rubric criterion is reversed, raising doubts about the reliability of rubric-based LLM evaluation.

By Anshul Bagaria, Sowmya S Sundaram, Gokul S Krishnan, Balaraman Ravindran