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The Benchmark Became the Thing Under Review
A reference-free framework scores conversational-agent tests for consistency, complexity and policy coverage before they score a model.
Summary
A reference-free framework scores conversational-agent tests for consistency, complexity and policy coverage before they score a model.
The framework uses language-model judges to inspect benchmark quality and produce diagnostics without requiring a separate reference answer for every item. The authors compare its judgments with human annotations, test benchmarks generated by models of different capability, and inject controlled degradations; they report that the metrics consistently separated quality levels across domains and judges. Because the assessor itself relies on model judgments, the result is a tool for benchmark auditing rather than an independent ground truth.
Why it matters
A reference-free framework scores conversational-agent tests for consistency, complexity and policy coverage before they score a model.
Limits and context
No additional limitation was separately recorded.
Key claims
A reference-free framework scores conversational-agent tests for consistency, complexity and policy coverage before they score a model.
Evidence: source-2026-08-08-016
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2608.06329arXiv · primary research
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