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New 'Representation-as-a-Judge' method uses small models for evaluation

Researchers have proposed a new evaluation method for language models called Representation-as-a-Judge, which utilizes the internal representations of smaller models rather than their generative output. This approach is based on the Semantic Capacity Asymmetry Hypothesis, suggesting that evaluation requires less semantic capacity than generation. The proposed framework, INSPECTOR, leverages these internal features from small models to predict evaluation scores, offering a more efficient, reliable, and interpretable alternative to traditional LLM-as-a-Judge methods. Experiments on reasoning benchmarks like GSM8K, MATH, and GPQA demonstrate that INSPECTOR performs comparably to larger LLM judges while being significantly more efficient. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and interpretable AI evaluation systems, reducing reliance on large, costly models.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhuochun Li, Yong Zhang, Ming Li, Yuelyu Ji, Yiming Zeng, Ning Cheng, Yun Zhu, Yanmeng Wang, Shaojun Wang, Jing Xiao, Daqing He ·

    Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

    arXiv:2601.22588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this "LLM-as-a-Judge" paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design. In this work, we investigate whether smaller mo…