LLM judges can be consistent yet wrong and order-sensitive

Across a large stress test, repeated and reordered evaluations exposed failures that conventional accuracy and single-shot checks often miss.

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Vineet Kumar · Darshita Rathore · Anindya Moitra

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Kumar, Rathore and Moitra audit whether LLM judges produce verdicts that are reproducible, unaffected by candidate order and correct.

The authors tested six frontier models on four benchmarks spanning subjective and objective comparisons, including adversarially difficult cases.

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LLM judge verdicts are not reliable: they vary across identical runs, flip with presentation order, and determinism can hide near-chance accuracy.

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