Agreement Without Alignment: Label-Free Rubric Clarification Increases LLM-Judge Consensus but Not Agreement with Humans
arXiv:2610.13303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM judges are increasingly deployed as panels, and disagreement among panel members is often read as a symptom of an unclear rubric. We test a label-free procedure that turns this disagreement into rubric repairs. The procedure decomposes each rubric into sub-criteria, ranks them by cross-judge disagreement on a development split, and has an editor model rewrite only the most contested ones. An additional stage that moves text-checkable sub-cri…