JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure
arXiv:2609.26550v5 Announce Type: replace 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 t…