Judge as A Judge: Improving the Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation through the Judge-Consistency of Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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Shuliang Liu, Xinze Li, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Cheng Yang, Zheni Zeng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Ge Yu
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation metrics cannot fairly evaluate the outputs of RAG models during training and evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which prompts LLMs to generate different judgments based on various combinations of judgment dimensions and utilizes the judge-consistency to evaluate these judgments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates more accurate evaluations for RAG models across different RAG model and datasets. |
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