Monocle: Hybrid Local-Global In-Context Evaluation for Long-Text Generation with Uncertainty-Based Active Learning

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Main Authors: Wang, Xiaorong, Yang, Ting, Zhang, Zhu, Wang, Shuo, Zhou, Zihan, Yang, Liner, Liu, Zhiyuan, Sun, Maosong
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author Wang, Xiaorong
Yang, Ting
Zhang, Zhu
Wang, Shuo
Zhou, Zihan
Yang, Liner
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
author_facet Wang, Xiaorong
Yang, Ting
Zhang, Zhu
Wang, Shuo
Zhou, Zihan
Yang, Liner
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
contents Assessing the quality of long-form, model-generated text is challenging, even with advanced LLM-as-a-Judge methods, due to performance degradation as input length increases. To address this issue, we propose a divide-and-conquer approach, which breaks down the comprehensive evaluation task into a series of localized scoring tasks, followed by a final global assessment. This strategy allows for more granular and manageable evaluations, ensuring that each segment of the text is assessed in isolation for both coherence and quality, while also accounting for the overall structure and consistency of the entire piece. Moreover, we introduce a hybrid in-context learning approach that leverages human annotations to enhance the performance of both local and global evaluations. By incorporating human-generated feedback directly into the evaluation process, this method allows the model to better align with human judgment. Finally, we develop an uncertainty-based active learning algorithm that efficiently selects data samples for human annotation, thereby reducing annotation costs in practical scenarios. Experimental results show that the proposed evaluation framework outperforms several representative baselines, highlighting the effectiveness of our approach.
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spellingShingle Monocle: Hybrid Local-Global In-Context Evaluation for Long-Text Generation with Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
Wang, Xiaorong
Yang, Ting
Zhang, Zhu
Wang, Shuo
Zhou, Zihan
Yang, Liner
Liu, Zhiyuan
Sun, Maosong
Computation and Language
Assessing the quality of long-form, model-generated text is challenging, even with advanced LLM-as-a-Judge methods, due to performance degradation as input length increases. To address this issue, we propose a divide-and-conquer approach, which breaks down the comprehensive evaluation task into a series of localized scoring tasks, followed by a final global assessment. This strategy allows for more granular and manageable evaluations, ensuring that each segment of the text is assessed in isolation for both coherence and quality, while also accounting for the overall structure and consistency of the entire piece. Moreover, we introduce a hybrid in-context learning approach that leverages human annotations to enhance the performance of both local and global evaluations. By incorporating human-generated feedback directly into the evaluation process, this method allows the model to better align with human judgment. Finally, we develop an uncertainty-based active learning algorithm that efficiently selects data samples for human annotation, thereby reducing annotation costs in practical scenarios. Experimental results show that the proposed evaluation framework outperforms several representative baselines, highlighting the effectiveness of our approach.
title Monocle: Hybrid Local-Global In-Context Evaluation for Long-Text Generation with Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20195