Beyond Pointwise Scores: Decomposed Criteria-Based Evaluation of LLM Responses (2025.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | DeCE is model-agnostic and domain-general, requiring no predefined taxonomies or handcrafted rubrics. |
| Approach: | They propose a decomposed LLM evaluation framework that separates accuracy and recall from accuracy and relevance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves stronger correlation with expert judgments than traditional metrics and pointwise LLM scoring. |
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