Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Title:JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:LLM-as-a-judge scales evaluation, but reasoning judges are slow and costly. We study JEV-as-a-Judge: evaluation with JEV, a decision-only judge that returns label probabilities instead of text, and whose confidence decides whether to accept its verdict or escalate to a reasoning judge. Against sixteen generative and reward-model judges, with blinded human adjudication, JEV comes within three points of GPT-6 wherever a verdict can be read off the text, at 0.36% of its fee and a 0.15-second median latency, and falls behind where the verdict must be derived, as in math, code, and logic. Its confidence marks this boundary. With a threshold frozen in advance, accepting confident verdicts and escalating the rest is 0.9 points more accurate than GPT-6 at 41% of its fee, and in a pre-specified live test on two new workloads the cascade matches GPT-6's accuracy exactly. Confidence routing weakens on style-adversarial pairs and reference-free prose.
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