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Rule-Augmented LLM Evaluators: Bridging the Gap to Human Judgment
This research introduces a novel approach to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) evaluators, enabling them to quantitatively assess text across diverse tasks with unprecedented accuracy and human alignment.
Transforming Text Evaluation with AI
Our rule-augmented LLM evaluators significantly elevate the precision and versatility of AI-driven text assessment, especially for complex, nuanced tasks where human judgment is critical.
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ASAP QWK Improvement (over second-best R1)
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Relish nDCG Lead (over CoR)
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Rule Selection Performance Improvement (over random)
Deep Analysis & Enterprise Applications
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Enterprise Process Flow
Annotated Data
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LLM-assisted MCTS
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Rule Distillation
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Chain-of-Rule Prompting
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Reinforcement Learning (RuAE)
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Rule-Augmented LLM Evaluators
MCTS for Rule Distillation
Our method introduces an LLM-assisted Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) approach to distill interpretable scoring rules from annotated data. This efficiently generates structured rules, addressing issues of scalability and misalignment with human judgment (mis-1). The search operates at a rule-level, significantly reducing complexity compared to token-level search.
CoR and RuAE Implementation
To effectively apply learned rules, we propose Chain-of-Rule (CoR) prompting, which injects distilled rules into LLM prompts. For deeper alignment, we introduce the Rule-Augmented LLM Evaluator (RuAE), trained via reinforcement learning. RuAE uses a composite reward function and Group Relative Policy Optimization, ensuring scores and rationales align with human judgment and rules (addressing mis-2).
Performance Across Diverse Tasks (Qwen-7B)
| Method | ASAP (QWK) | Relish (nDCG) | Amazon (MAE) |
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| Scoring | 0.286 | 0.821 | 1.21 |
| CoT | 0.122 | 0.824 | 1.18 |
| CoR | 0.316 | 0.826 | 1.20 |
| RuAE-7B | 0.379 | 0.934 | 0.366 |
RuAE demonstrates superior performance on complex tasks like ASAP and Relish, while CoR shows consistent improvement across most tasks.
Ablation Study Insights
Ablation studies confirm the importance of each component: the composite reward design (r_order is crucial for ordinal relationships), and reinforcement learning over SFT. MCTS+SFT showed the most significant drop due to bias from easily evaluable samples. Our reward computation for rule distillation proved superior to pairwise reward (PAR) in identifying stable and unified rules (lower H, higher JS).
Interpretable Scoring Rules Learned
- Relish (Literature Relevance): Focused on 'Applications' and 'Findings', aligning with biomedical priorities.
- Amazon (Rating Prediction): Emphasized 'Positive Sentiment' and 'Satisfaction Level', as expected for reviews.
- ASAP (Essay Scoring): Learned rules like 'Organization', 'Word choice', 'Idea&Content', 'Sentence fluency', and 'Evidence support' showed high alignment with human-defined rubrics.
- Overall Alignment: Achieved high precision (1.00) and recall (0.83) with human-defined rules for ASAP, with a 67% improvement over random selection (LoR 1.67) and statistical significance (p=0.024).
Score Distribution Alignment
KDE plots for ASAP showed that RuAE's score distribution was closest to the ground truth, significantly reducing the bias observed in CoR. This indicates RuAE's ability to not only achieve high accuracy but also to align with human scoring patterns.
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Seamless AI Integration Roadmap
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Discovery & Strategy
Understand current evaluation workflows, identify key metrics, and define integration goals.
Rule Distillation & Adaptation
Automate the extraction of task-specific scoring rules from your existing data using LLM-assisted MCTS.
Model Training & Refinement
Train and fine-tune Rule-Augmented LLM Evaluators (RuAE) with reinforcement learning for optimal performance and human alignment.
Deployment & Monitoring
Integrate RuAE into your existing systems and establish robust monitoring for continuous improvement.
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