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A heterogeneous, multi-paradigm evidence aggregation system using an independence-aware Evaluator Conflict Score and conflict-gated cascading architecture enables evaluation rigor to scale proportionally to uncertainty, overcoming the correlated errors of monolithic LLM-as-a-judge ensembles. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Address correlated errors and false consensus in LLM-as-a-judge frameworks by replacing monolithic semantic voting with independence-aware heterogeneous verification.

September 7, 2026Open Access

Beyond LLM-as-a-Judge: Independence-Aware Heterogeneous Evaluation with Conflict-Gated Verification

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Address correlated errors and false consensus in LLM-as-a-judge frameworks by replacing monolithic semantic voting with independence-aware heterogeneous verification.
Quantified error dependence in multi-model frontier LLM panels against classical Condorcet voting assumptions and benchmarked instruction-tuned judges on JudgeBench while controlling for stylistic confounds.
Formulated an Evaluator Conflict Score (ECS) to weight disagreement across semantic, deterministic symbolic, programmatic, and retrieval-based verification paradigms.
Constructed a conflict-gated cascading pipeline that uses detected evaluative conflict to trigger escalating stages of verification.
A diverse panel of nine frontier LLM judges provided information equivalent to only approximately 2.2 independent votes due to extensive correlated errors.
Frontier instruction-tuned evaluator models collapsed toward random guessing on objective JudgeBench tasks when stylistic confounds were eliminated.

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Methodological framework demonstrates correlated errors in language model evaluators, highlighting a conflict-gated verification system that scales rigor with uncertainty.

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Sourav Kumar (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9e85a2c3034f961570ddff https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22368666

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Methodological framework demonstrates correlated errors in language model evaluators, highlighting a conflict-gated verification system that scales rigor with uncertainty.

Beyond LLM-as-a-Judge: Independence-Aware Heterogeneous Evaluation with Conflict-Gated Verification

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