Interesting papers

All published papers whose full text was read, ranked by interest score.

Papers: 57
# Score Paper Year
1 8.7 LLM Judges as Raters: A Pre-Registered Audit of Severity, Halo, Reliability, and Version Instability in LLM Essay Scoring on Public Corpora
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.29517
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 9.5 · Engineering 9.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 10.0
2026
2 8.1 One Percent of the Bank: Adaptive Item Selection Reads Targeted Contamination Up While the Whole Bank Barely Moves
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · doi:10.5281/zenodo.23156543
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.5 · Engineering 7.5 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
3 8.0 Agreement Metrics for LLM-as-Judge Evaluation: What to Report and Why
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.00093
Novelty 7.5 · Rigor 8.5 · Engineering 7.5 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 8.5
2026
4 8.0 StyleShield: Exposing the Fragility of AIGC Detectors through Continuous Controllable Style Transfer
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.00924
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
5 8.0 From 0-Order Selection to 2-Order Judgment: Combinatorial Hardening Exposes Compositional Failures in Frontier LLMs
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.07268
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
6 8.0 Every Model Cheats: Prompt-Level Mitigation of Cheating on Offensive Cyber Tasks
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.21763
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
7 8.0 Laplace-PSN-IRT: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Item Response Theory Models of LLM Benchmarks
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.25257
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
8 8.0 A Judge Should Know What Changed:Construct Validity for LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.24419
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
9 7.8 Rubrics Carry the Standard: Shapley Attribution for Checklist-Based LLM Judges
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.24971
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 7.5 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 7.0
2026
10 7.8 Detection of two-way outliers in multivariate data and application to cheating detection in educational tests
The Annals of Applied Statistics · doi:10.1214/21-aoas1564
Novelty 7.0 · Rigor 9.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 6.0 · Topic 9.0
2022
11 7.7 Diagnosing the Reliability of LLM-as-a-Judge via Item Response Theory
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2602.00521
Novelty 7.5 · Rigor 8.5 · Engineering 7.0 · Consensus 7.5 · Topic 9.0
2026
12 7.7 Correct codes for the wrong reasons? validating LLMs as measurement instruments for theoretical constructs
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.28574
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 7.0 · Engineering 7.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
13 7.7 GAUGE: When Not to Trust LLM-as-a-Judge in User-Simulated Evaluation of Task-Oriented Agents
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.12191
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 7.0 · Consensus 7.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
14 7.6 Personality Without Persons? A Psychometric Critique of Big Five Testing in Large Language Models
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.02325
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 5.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
15 7.6 Faster AI, Uneven Frontier: Rapid Crossings, a Jagged Frontier, and the Repositioning of Human Judgment
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.12125
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 5.0 · Consensus 8.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
16 7.5 Latent Impact and Differential Item Functioning Analysis for Asymmetric IRT Models
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.05684
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 7.0
2026
17 7.5 Do Coding Agents Deceive Us? Detecting and Preventing Cheating via Capped Evaluation with Randomized Tests
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.07379
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
18 7.5 CurveShift: Is Agent Progress Scalar? Separating Level from Shape
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.00355
Novelty 7.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 7.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
19 7.5 Fighting Fire with Fire: On the Feasibility of Protecting Exercises Against AI Cheating
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.01112
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
20 7.5 Every Wrong Answer Counts: Option-Level Psychometrics for LLM Multiple-Choice Benchmarks
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.02966
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
21 7.5 EduClaw-Bench: A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Pedagogical LLM Agents with Simulated Learners
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.03206
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
22 7.5 Item Response Theory for AI Safety
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.05086
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
23 7.5 Every Token Counts: Exact Likert-Scale Distributions for Measuring LLM Attitudes and Biases
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.10503
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026
24 7.5 A Dual-Dimensional LLM Framework for Automated Item Incidental Content Similarity Analysis in Large-Scale Assessments
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.24825
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 9.0
2026
25 7.5 Check The Scoreboard: An Analysis of Scoring Schemes on Multiple-Choice Evaluation
arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.29887
Novelty 8.0 · Rigor 8.0 · Engineering 8.0 · Consensus 5.0 · Topic 8.0
2026