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Beyond Correctness: Validity-Oriented Evaluation of Biomedical LLM Judges

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 20 references
Computer Science

Abstract

We propose a scalable, validity-oriented pipeline for evaluating biomedical LLM judges when high-quality human judgments are scarce. First, we augment existing human-labelled biomedical benchmarks with deterministic, metric-grounded mutations that produce auditable preference pairs. Second, we evaluate judges beyond aggregate correctness using three deployment-relevant dimensions: correctness against metric-derived gold labels, robustness under repeated stochastic sampling, and compliance with the requested output format. We use this pipeline to assess Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct under four regimes: (1) base, using the instruct model as is; (2) SFT, distillation-based supervised fine-tuning only; (3) RL, GRPO-based reinforcement learning only; and (4) SFT$\rightarrow$RL, SFT followed by RL. The base and single-stage regimes struggle on structured medical discrimination such as PICO extraction and clinical calculations, whereas SFT$\rightarrow$RL performs best across correctness, compliance, and robustness; gains concentrate on decomposable tasks (PICO, MedCalc), at times matching or outperforming frontier models.

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