让评估模型在测试时自我改进,越评越准。
Becoming Experienced Judges: Selective Test-Time Learning for Evaluators
- 评估时动态优化提示词,实现边评边学
- 仅对矛盾案例更新,节省计算资源
- 适合需要持续优化的自动评估场景
大型语言模型作为评估者(LLM-as-a-judge)已成为推理与对齐任务的标准自动评估方式。尽管部署时需评估大量样本,现有方法通常(i)独立处理每项评估,错失积累经验的机会;(ii)对所有样本使用单一固定提示,忽略样本特异性评估需求。本文提出「评估中学习」(LWE)框架,使评估者在推理阶段可顺序提升,无需训练或验证集。LWE维护一个不断演化的元提示,既能生成样本特定的评估指令,又能通过自生成反馈自我优化。进一步提出「选择性 LWE」,仅在自不一致的案例上更新元提示,将计算聚焦于关键位置。该方法在两个成对比较基准上超越强基线,实证表明评估者可通过简单的选择性更新,在连续测试中有效提升性能,尤其从自身困难的案例中获益最多。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Automatic evaluation with large language models, commonly known as LLM-as-a-judge, is now standard across reasoning and alignment tasks. Despite evaluating many samples in deployment, these evaluators typically (i) treat each case independently, missing the opportunity to accumulate experience, and (ii) rely on a single fixed prompt for all cases, neglecting the need for sample-specific evaluation criteria. We introduce Learning While Evaluating (LWE), a framework that allows evaluators to improve sequentially at inference time without requiring training or validation sets. LWE maintains an evolving meta-prompt that (i) produces sample-specific evaluation instructions and (ii) refines itself through self-generated feedback. Furthermore, we propose Selective LWE, which updates the meta-prompt only on self-inconsistent cases, focusing computation where it matters most. This selective approach retains the benefits of sequential learning while being far more cost-effective. Across two pairwise comparison benchmarks, Selective LWE outperforms strong baselines, empirically demonstrating that evaluators can improve during sequential testing with a simple selective update, learning most from the cases they struggle with.
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