LLM as a Judge

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2024 Nov 22 23:37
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2026 Aug 19 16:42
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LLM Judge

Using continuous scores for LLM as a judge is not effective. LLMs perform better when making categorical judgments. It is recommended to first have LLM judges make categorical assessments, which can then be aggregated into continuous metrics if needed.

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LLM Judge Types
 
 

llm-as-a-verifier
llm-as-a-verifier • Updated 2026 Aug 19 16:46

llm judge weakness

political-neutrality-eval
anthropics • Updated 2026 Mar 5 7:22

Inter-model evaluation agreement rates:
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5 ↔ GPT-5
    • 92% agreement
  • Claude Opus 4.1 ↔ Sonnet 4.5
    • 94% agreement
Human evaluator agreement is around 85% → Model graders are more consistent than humans.
 
 

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