ReasonerRank: Redefining Language Model Evaluation with Ground-Truth-Free Ranking Frameworks (2025.findings-acl)
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Jiamu Zhang, Jiayi Yuan, Andrew Wen, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Yu-Neng Chuang, Soo-Hyun Choi, Rui Chen, Xia Hu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted across real-world applications . traditional evaluations rely on expensive, domain-specific ground-truth labels . obtaining labeled data is expensive, time-consuming, and often requires domain expertise . |
| Approach: | They propose a ground-truth-free evaluation framework focused on reasoning consistency and instruction following. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing label-free methods, including majority voting, triplet ranking, and peer-review approaches. |
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