Knockout LLM Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons

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Hauptverfasser: Sandan, Isik Baran, Dinh, Tu Anh, Niehues, Jan
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author Sandan, Isik Baran
Dinh, Tu Anh
Niehues, Jan
author_facet Sandan, Isik Baran
Dinh, Tu Anh
Niehues, Jan
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown to be effective evaluators across various domains such as machine translations or the scientific domain. Current LLM-as-a-Judge approaches rely mostly on individual assessments or a single round of pairwise assessments, preventing the judge LLM from developing a global ranking perspective. To address this, we present Knockout Assessment, an LLM-asa Judge method using a knockout tournament system with iterative pairwise comparisons. Experiments across three LLMs on two datasets show that knockout assessment improves scoring accuracy, increasing Pearson correlation with expert evaluations by 0.07 on average for university-level exam scoring and machine translation evaluations, aligning LLM assessments more closely with human scoring.
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spellingShingle Knockout LLM Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons
Sandan, Isik Baran
Dinh, Tu Anh
Niehues, Jan
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown to be effective evaluators across various domains such as machine translations or the scientific domain. Current LLM-as-a-Judge approaches rely mostly on individual assessments or a single round of pairwise assessments, preventing the judge LLM from developing a global ranking perspective. To address this, we present Knockout Assessment, an LLM-asa Judge method using a knockout tournament system with iterative pairwise comparisons. Experiments across three LLMs on two datasets show that knockout assessment improves scoring accuracy, increasing Pearson correlation with expert evaluations by 0.07 on average for university-level exam scoring and machine translation evaluations, aligning LLM assessments more closely with human scoring.
title Knockout LLM Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03785