LLM Judges Have Dark Current: Stratified Null and Utility Tests for LLM Judge Reliability

arXiv:2606.15610 · cs.CL, astro-ph.IM, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, astro-ph.IM, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-14

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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