On Cost-Effective LLM-as-a-Judge Improvement Techniques
Using a language model to score or rank candidate responses has become a scalable alternative to human evaluation in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) pipelines, benchmarking, and application layer evaluations. However, output reliability depends heavily on prompting and aggregation strategy. We present an empirical investigation of four drop-in techniques -- ensemble scoring, task-specific criteria injection, calibration context, and adaptive model escalation -- for improving LLM judge accuracy on RewardBench 2, with a unifying lens of noise control on the stochastic judge: ensembling as Monte Carlo averaging over per-call noise, criteria injection as between-response dis...
| Authors | Ryan Lail, Luke Markham |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 15 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 June 2026 |
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