Your LLM-as-judge has a position bias you are not measuring
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If your pairwise judge sees answer A before answer B, it tends to prefer A. If you never swap the order, every win-rate you report is contaminated by which slot you happened to put each answer in. The first time I actually measured this, I did not believe the number. I had a judge scoring 400 pairwise comparisons, model against baseline, and it reported a 61% win-rate for our new model. Then I ran the exact same 400 pairs with the two answers swapped in the prompt. The win-rate came back at…
1Key Takeaways
- If your pairwise judge sees answer A before answer B, it tends to prefer A.
- If you never swap the order, every win-rate you report is contaminated by which slot you happened to put each answer in.
- The first time I actually measured this, I did not believe the number.
- I had a judge scoring 400 pairwise comparisons, model against baseline, and it reported a 61% win-rate for our new model.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that if your pairwise judge sees answer A before answer B, it tends to prefer A.
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