LLM-as-judge research surge: new methods for reliable evaluation

A wave of arXiv papers (Aug 19-27) tackles LLM-as-judge reliability: RecurSE eliminates external annotations via bounded recursive self-evaluation; JuryProbe diagnoses consensus risk in judge panels; SESSE decomposes evaluation into structured steps. Others address self-preference bias, rubric-based alignment, and uncertainty-guarded judging.