bibtext: @inproceedings{
  liu2024aligning,
  title={Aligning with Human Judgement: The Role of Pairwise Preference in Large Language Model Evaluators},
  author={Yinhong Liu and Han Zhou and Zhijiang Guo and Ehsan Shareghi and Ivan Vuli{\'c} and Anna Korhonen and Nigel Collier},
  booktitle={First Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=9gdZI7c6yr}
  }
abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities as automatic evaluators in assessing the quality of generated natural language. However, LLMs still exhibit biases in evaluation and often struggle to generate coherent evaluations that align with human assessments. In this work, we first conduct a systematic study of the misalignment between LLM evaluators and human evaluation, revealing that existing calibration methods aimed at mitigating biases of LLMs are insufficient for effectively aligning LLM evaluators. Inspired by the use of preference data in RLHF, we formulate the evaluation as a ranking problem and introduce Pairwise-preference Search (PairS), an uncertainty-guided search method that employs LLMs to conduct pairwise comparisons locally and efficiently ranks candidate texts globally. PairS achieves state-of-the-art performance on representative evaluation tasks in long-form generations and demonstrates significant improvements over direct scoring. Furthermore, we provide insights into the role of pairwise preference in quantifying the
  transitivity of LLMs and demonstrate how PairS benefits from calibration using debiased pairwise evaluations.
title: Aligning with Human Judgement: The Role of Pairwise Preference in Large Language Model Evaluators
authors: Yinhong Liu Han Zhou Zhijiang Guo Ehsan Shareghi Ivan Vulić Anna Korhonen Nigel Collier