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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08595 |
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- Existing evaluation methods for LLM-based AI systems, such as LLM-as-a-Judge, verdict systems, and NLI, do not always align well with human assessment because they cannot adapt their strictness to the application domain. This paper presents Temperature-Controlled Verdict Aggregation (TCVA), a method that combines a five-level verdict-scoring system with generalized power-mean aggregation and an intuitive temperature parameter T [0.1, 1.0] to control evaluation rigor. Low temperatures yield pessimistic scores suited for safety-critical domains; high temperatures produce lenient scores appropriate for conversational AI. Experimental evaluation on three benchmark datasets with human Likert-scale annotations (SummEval and USR) shows that TCVA achieves correlation with human judgments comparable to RAGAS on faithfulness (Spearman = 0.667 vs. 0.676) while consistently outperforming DeepEval. The method requires no additional LLM calls when adjusting the temperature parameter.