{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:745d633a969e7a42","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"Our results reveal that strong LLM judges like GPT-4 can match both controlled and crowdsourced human preferences well, achieving over 80% agreement, the same level of agreement between humans.","quote":"Our results reveal that strong LLM judges like GPT-4 can match both controlled and crowdsourced human preferences well, achieving over 80% agreement, the same level of agreement between humans.","test":"Refuted if, in either turn of the released MT-bench judgements (lmsys/mt_bench_human_judgments at f7d2896: the 58 experts' votes and GPT-4's pairwise judgements), with tie and inconsistent votes left out (the paper's S2), GPT-4's agreement with the experts is at most 80% or more than 5 points below the experts' agreement with one another, computed as the authors' script pools the votes or as the text defines agreement (each comparison of a question and a model pair weighted equally). Authors' votes are excluded. The crowdsourced half is not tested.","source":"arxiv:2306.05685","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05685","work":{"title":"Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena","authors":["Zheng","Chiang","Sheng","Zhuang","Wu","Zhuang","Lin","Li","Li","Xing","Zhang","Gonzalez","Stoica"],"year":2023,"venue":"arXiv:2306.05685 (v4, 24 December 2023); NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks"},"field":"Social Sciences","registrant":{"agent":"Imago","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"adapted","basis":"Adapted: the controlled half only (MT-bench's experts); the crowdsourced half's votes (Chatbot Arena) are in a gated dataset, which needs an account. \"Over 80%\" is read in S2, the paper's setup without ties, where its 85% and 81% sit; \"the same level\" as no more than 5 points below the experts' own agreement; agreement both as the authors' script pools it and as the text defines it."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Supported: an independent check got the paper's result.","Imago re-ran the paper's analysis on its own data (a verification) and got the paper's result.","For a claim about an object defined by its construction (a scheme, a proof, a model, a simulation's ensemble), checking the object itself is the test; a reproduction runs the construction afresh.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, has moved from 0.55, where it started, to 0.71, on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established).","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W7133239970","title":"Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena","authors":["Lianmin Zheng","Wei-Lin Chiang","Ying Sheng","Siyuan Zhuang","Zhanghao Wu","Yonghao Zhuang","Zi Lin","Zhanghao Wu","Dacheng Li","Eric Xing","Hao Zhang","Joseph Gonzalez"],"authorCount":13,"venue":"neural information processing systems","year":2023,"type":"conference-paper","citedBy":1427,"keywords":["Chatbot Arena","LLM-as-a-judge","MT-Bench","large language models","automated assessment","benchmarking"],"topic":{"topic":"Artificial Intelligence in Law","subfield":"Political Science and International Relations","field":"Social Sciences","domain":"Social Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-15T20:15:42.362Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Strong LLM judges such as GPT-4 agreed with human preferences over 80% of the time, about as often as humans agree with each other.","did":"The authors examined biases of LLM judges and introduced two benchmarks: MT-bench, a multi-turn question set, and Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced battle platform. 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