Human preferences contain signals that rubrics and verifiers miss

Across seven creative and technical domains, dense preference models captured human judgments that executable checks and verbal criteria could not.

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Alexander Spangher · Sheldon Huang · Andreas Haupt · Noah D. Goodman · Diyi Yang · Daniel E. Ho · +1 more

Stanford University · University of Toronto

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Spangher et al.

The authors introduce CreativePreferences, spanning mathematics, coding, law, academia, journalism, creative writing and humor.

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From Stanford University and University of Toronto · Part of LLM Judge Decomposition, now 3 papers

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Preference judgments contain tacit components not captured by articulated rules or verifiable checks, across all domains including math and code.

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