Scoring, Reasoning, and Selecting the Best! Ensembling Large Language Models via a Peer-Review Process

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Zhijun, Ji, Zeyu, Mao, Qianren, Wu, Hao, Song, Jinhuan, Cheng, Junhang, Qin, Bangjie, Li, Zhuoran, Li, Jingzheng, Sun, Kai, Wang, Zizhe, Ban, Yikun, Sun, Zhu, Ji, Xiangyang, Sun, Hailong
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author Chen, Zhijun
Ji, Zeyu
Mao, Qianren
Wu, Hao
Song, Jinhuan
Cheng, Junhang
Qin, Bangjie
Li, Zhuoran
Li, Jingzheng
Sun, Kai
Wang, Zizhe
Ban, Yikun
Sun, Zhu
Ji, Xiangyang
Sun, Hailong
author_facet Chen, Zhijun
Ji, Zeyu
Mao, Qianren
Wu, Hao
Song, Jinhuan
Cheng, Junhang
Qin, Bangjie
Li, Zhuoran
Li, Jingzheng
Sun, Kai
Wang, Zizhe
Ban, Yikun
Sun, Zhu
Ji, Xiangyang
Sun, Hailong
contents We propose LLM-PeerReview, an unsupervised LLM Ensemble method that selects the most ideal response from multiple LLM-generated candidates for each query, harnessing the collective wisdom of multiple models with diverse strengths. LLM-PeerReview is built on a novel, peer-review-inspired framework that offers a transparent and interpretable mechanism, while remaining fully unsupervised for flexible adaptability and generalization. Specifically, it operates in three stages: For scoring, we use the emerging LLM-as-a-Judge technique to evaluate each response by reusing multiple LLMs at hand; For reasoning, we can apply a straightforward averaging strategy or a principled graphical model-based truth inference algorithm to aggregate multiple scores to produce a final score for each response; Finally, the highest-scoring response is selected as the best ensemble output. LLM-PeerReview is conceptually simple and empirically powerful. Our results across four datasets show that the two variants of the proposed approach outperform the advanced model Smoothie-Global by 6.9% and 7.3% points, cross diverse task types including factual recall QA, math reasoning, and instruction following.
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spellingShingle Scoring, Reasoning, and Selecting the Best! Ensembling Large Language Models via a Peer-Review Process
Chen, Zhijun
Ji, Zeyu
Mao, Qianren
Wu, Hao
Song, Jinhuan
Cheng, Junhang
Qin, Bangjie
Li, Zhuoran
Li, Jingzheng
Sun, Kai
Wang, Zizhe
Ban, Yikun
Sun, Zhu
Ji, Xiangyang
Sun, Hailong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
We propose LLM-PeerReview, an unsupervised LLM Ensemble method that selects the most ideal response from multiple LLM-generated candidates for each query, harnessing the collective wisdom of multiple models with diverse strengths. LLM-PeerReview is built on a novel, peer-review-inspired framework that offers a transparent and interpretable mechanism, while remaining fully unsupervised for flexible adaptability and generalization. Specifically, it operates in three stages: For scoring, we use the emerging LLM-as-a-Judge technique to evaluate each response by reusing multiple LLMs at hand; For reasoning, we can apply a straightforward averaging strategy or a principled graphical model-based truth inference algorithm to aggregate multiple scores to produce a final score for each response; Finally, the highest-scoring response is selected as the best ensemble output. LLM-PeerReview is conceptually simple and empirically powerful. Our results across four datasets show that the two variants of the proposed approach outperform the advanced model Smoothie-Global by 6.9% and 7.3% points, cross diverse task types including factual recall QA, math reasoning, and instruction following.
title Scoring, Reasoning, and Selecting the Best! Ensembling Large Language Models via a Peer-Review Process
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23213