@inproceedings{sandan-etal-2025-knockout,
    title = "Knockout {LLM} Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons",
    author = "Sandan, Isik Baran  and
      Dinh, Tu Anh  and
      Niehues, Jan",
    editor = "Arviv, Ofir  and
      Clinciu, Miruna  and
      Dhole, Kaustubh  and
      Dror, Rotem  and
      Gehrmann, Sebastian  and
      Habba, Eliya  and
      Itzhak, Itay  and
      Mille, Simon  and
      Perlitz, Yotam  and
      Santus, Enrico  and
      Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shmueli Scheuer, Michal  and
      Stanovsky, Gabriel  and
      Tafjord, Oyvind",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM{\texttwosuperior})",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria and virtual meeting",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2025.gem-1.10/",
    pages = "121--128",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-261-9",
    abstract = "Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown to be effective evaluators across various domains such as machine translations or the scientific domain. Current LLM-as-a-Judge approaches rely mostly on individual assessments or a single round of pairwise assessments, preventing the judge LLM from developing a global ranking perspective.To address this, we present Knockout Assessment, an LLM-as-a-Judge method using a knockout tournament system with iterative pairwise comparisons. Experiments across three LLMs on two datasets show that knockout assessment improves scoring accuracy, increasing Pearson correlation with expert evaluations by 0.07 on average for university-level exam scoring and machine translation evaluations, aligning LLM assessments more closely with human scoring."
}