Screening LLM Judges Without Ground Truth: A Preliminary Evaluation of an AI Dental Hygiene Coach
Evaluating a fine-tuned coaching model with expert graders is slow and expensive, and an LLM judge cannot be trusted without ground truth. We present a staged pipeline that screens candidate LLM judges and student models before expert review, using explicit decision rules at each stage: judge output audit, similarity with hosted judges, bias checks, and decision robustness. We demonstrate it on an AI dental hygiene coach. The case study uses synthetic, clinically unvalidated training and reference data to demonstrate the operation of the pipeline, rather than to establish the clinical performance of the resulting models. Two fine-tuned small language models (Granite-4.1-8B and Qwen3-8B), ...
| Authors | William DeShong, Barath Kannan, Auberon Palma et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 17 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 October 2026 |
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