Decision-only judge matches reasoning judge at fraction of cost using confidence-based escalation

By deferring uncertain cases to a stronger model, the JEV cascade achieves GPT-6 accuracy at less than half the cost.

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Yubo Li · Yidi Miao · Ramayya Krishnan · Rema Padman

Carnegie Mellon University

Research Digest··2 min read
The authors propose JEV-as-a-Judge, a minimal API that outputs only label probabilities.

The authors benchmark JEV, a decision-only judging service (TypeSafe JEV), against fourteen generative LLMs and two reward models on a suite of 5,172 judgments spanning pairwise preference, evidence-grounded factuality, and final-answer adjudication.

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first published 19 Oct, 6:53 am
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