Language Model Council: Democratically Benchmarking Foundation Models on Highly Subjective Tasks

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, the search for efficient and meaningful evaluation methods is ongoing. Many recent evaluations use LLMs as judges to score outputs from other LLMs, often relying on a single large model like GPT-4o. However, using a single LLM judge is prone to int...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Zhao, Justin, Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam, Genchel, Benjie, Curry, Amanda Cercas
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 21.10.2024
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Benchmarks
Councils
Emotional intelligence
Large language models
Robustness
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Summary:As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, the search for efficient and meaningful evaluation methods is ongoing. Many recent evaluations use LLMs as judges to score outputs from other LLMs, often relying on a single large model like GPT-4o. However, using a single LLM judge is prone to intra-model bias, and many tasks - such as those related to emotional intelligence, creative writing, and persuasiveness - may be too subjective for a single model to judge fairly. We introduce the Language Model Council (LMC), where a group of LLMs collaborate to create tests, respond to them, and evaluate each other's responses to produce a ranking in a democratic fashion. Unlike previous approaches that focus on reducing cost or bias by using a panel of smaller models, our work examines the benefits and nuances of a fully inclusive LLM evaluation system. In a detailed case study on emotional intelligence, we deploy a council of 20 recent LLMs to rank each other on open-ended responses to interpersonal conflicts. Our results show that the LMC produces rankings that are more separable and more robust, and through a user study, we show that they are more consistent with human evaluations than any individual LLM judge. Using all LLMs for judging can be costly, however, so we use Monte Carlo simulations and hand-curated sub-councils to study hypothetical council compositions and discuss the value of the incremental LLM judge.
ISSN:2331-8422