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arxiv: 2606.05384 · v1 · pith:DXPXVFOYnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CL

Stability vs. Manipulability: Evaluating Robustness Under Post-Decision Interaction in LLM Judges

Srimonti Dutta , Akshata Kishore Moharir This is my paper

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keywords LLM judgespost-decision interactionmanipulabilityevaluation robustnessMT-BenchAlpacaEvalEvaluation Robustness Score
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The pith

LLM judges remain stable under neutral reevaluation but reverse substantially under targeted post-decision challenges.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Benchmarking pipelines assume LLM judge outputs are fixed properties of the input once produced. Experiments on MT-Bench and AlpacaEval show high consistency when the same query is repeated neutrally, but marked reversibility once the judge receives motivated challenges afterward. These reversals lower agreement with human preferences, alter model rankings, and appear even when the judge expresses high confidence in its original decision. Revised judgments frequently rest on justifications with little overlap to the first version, consistent with post-hoc rationalization. The paper introduces the Evaluation Robustness Score to combine reversal susceptibility with directional balance and thereby quantify interactional robustness.

Core claim

LLM judges exhibit high stability under repeated neutral reevaluation yet become substantially reversible under an anti-baseline challenge protocol that overturns initial judgments and a counterbalanced target-validation protocol that separates reversibility from net directional steering. These changes degrade human agreement, shift benchmark rankings, and occur despite high self-reported confidence, with authority framing proving especially effective at producing instability. Revised decisions are accompanied by low-overlap justifications. The Evaluation Robustness Score quantifies the resulting interactional vulnerability by integrating reversal rates with counterbalanced directional effec

What carries the argument

Anti-baseline challenge and counterbalanced target-validation protocols that measure post-decision manipulability, quantified by the Evaluation Robustness Score.

Load-bearing premise

The post-decision challenge protocols isolate interactional manipulability without introducing new information that would also change a human evaluator's decision.

What would settle it

Human evaluators exposed to the identical anti-baseline and target-validation challenge sequences show reversal rates comparable to those observed in the LLM judges.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05384 by Akshata Kishore Moharir, Srimonti Dutta.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of evaluation behavior under conversational challenge. Judges are stable under neutral control but highly reversible under the anti-baseline challenge protocol, with 49% of decisions changing. A counterbalanced target-validation protocol confirms persuasion-induced reversibility (PS = 19.4%) while showing no net target-directed steering beyond neutral reconsideration. These interaction-induced rev… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Experimental framework for post-decision interaction. Evaluation inputs are fixed while only post-decision interaction is varied, isolating the effect of conversational challenge on judgment outcomes. cally altered through targeted conversational chal￾lenge. This differs from prior work on prompt sensitivity, which examines how initial conditions affect outputs, and from adversarial prompting, which target… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Conversational challenge induces reversals and degrades alignment. Flip rates increase sharply under persuasion (49% overall; 74% under authority), while agreement with human preferences declines 67% to 48%. The absence of flips under neutral control con￾firms that these effects are causally driven by interaction. than merely inducing random variation. How￾ever, because the anti-baseline challenge prompt t… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Ranking sensitivity under post-decision challenge. Under the anti-baseline challenge protocol, rankings derived from LLM judgments shift under per￾suasion (Kendall’s τ = 0.50), with 6 of 8 ranked entries changing position. drop of 3.3 percentage points. Doubt and evi￾dence conditions do not reduce alignment in this audit. We therefore interpret alignment degradation as strongest under the anti-baseline cha… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Confidence does not predict robustness. All evaluations fall within the high-confidence range, yet decisions still reverse at high rates under persuasion (49%), indicating miscalibration, where confidence does not reliably predict robustness. the authority challenge, then falls to 18.6% after the subsequent evidence-based challenge. Across the full multi-step trajectory, 27 of 59 decisions flip at least on… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

LLM-as-judge evaluation is widely used in benchmarking pipelines, where model outputs are compared and ranked using automated evaluators. These pipelines typically assume that judgments are stable properties of fixed inputs. We show that this assumption does not hold under interaction. We study post-decision manipulability: the extent to which an evaluation outcome can be altered through subsequent conversation with the judge after an initial decision has been made. Across controlled experiments on MT-Bench and AlpacaEval, we find that LLM judges are highly stable under repeated and neutral reevaluation, yet become substantially reversible under targeted post-decision challenge. An anti-baseline challenge protocol shows that stable judgments can be overturned through motivated interaction, while a counterbalanced target-validation protocol separates this reversibility from net target-directed steering. These reversals have practical consequences: they can degrade agreement with human preferences, shift benchmark rankings, and produce harmful evaluation changes despite high self-reported confidence. Authority framing is especially destabilizing, and revised judgments are often accompanied by low-overlap justifications, suggesting post hoc rationalization rather than reliable error correction. We introduce the Evaluation Robustness Score (ERS) to quantify interactional robustness by combining reversal susceptibility with counterbalanced directional effects. Our findings identify post-decision interaction as a distinct failure mode for LLM-as-judge evaluation and motivate evaluation protocols that measure not only static agreement, but robustness under challenge.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that LLM-as-judge evaluations, widely used in benchmarking, are stable under repeated neutral reevaluation but substantially reversible under targeted post-decision interactions. Using anti-baseline and counterbalanced target-validation protocols on MT-Bench and AlpacaEval, it shows that motivated challenges can overturn stable judgments, degrade agreement with human preferences, shift rankings, and produce low-overlap justifications suggestive of post hoc rationalization. Authority framing is particularly destabilizing. The authors introduce the Evaluation Robustness Score (ERS), which combines reversal susceptibility with directional effects, to quantify interactional robustness and argue that post-decision interaction is a distinct failure mode requiring new evaluation protocols.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, the work is significant because it identifies a previously under-examined failure mode—post-decision manipulability—in LLM judges that are central to automated evaluation pipelines. The use of two standard benchmarks, two distinct protocols that attempt to separate steering from net directional effects, and the introduction of ERS provide concrete tools for measuring robustness beyond static agreement. The paper earns credit for its empirical framing with no ad-hoc parameters or circular definitions and for highlighting practical consequences such as ranking shifts.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that judgments 'become substantially reversible under targeted post-decision challenge' is presented without any quantitative effect sizes, sample sizes, model versions, statistical tests, or error bars. This absence is load-bearing for the claim of substantial reversibility and prevents assessment of whether the observed changes exceed what would be expected from ordinary reevaluation.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (and implied methods): the anti-baseline and counterbalanced target-validation protocols are asserted to isolate interactional manipulability, yet no content analysis, information-neutrality controls, or comparison to human judgment shifts under the same challenges is reported. Without such evidence, the reversals could reflect legitimate incorporation of new arguments rather than a distinct manipulability failure mode.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which help clarify how to strengthen the presentation of our quantitative claims and the interpretation of our protocols. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that judgments 'become substantially reversible under targeted post-decision challenge' is presented without any quantitative effect sizes, sample sizes, model versions, statistical tests, or error bars. This absence is load-bearing for the claim of substantial reversibility and prevents assessment of whether the observed changes exceed what would be expected from ordinary reevaluation.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should include quantitative support for the central claim. The full manuscript reports these details in the results (reversal rates under challenge vs. neutral conditions, sample sizes on MT-Bench and AlpacaEval, model versions, statistical tests, and error bars). We will revise the abstract to incorporate key effect sizes, sample sizes, model versions, and references to the statistical analyses so that the magnitude of reversibility relative to ordinary reevaluation is immediately assessable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (and implied methods): the anti-baseline and counterbalanced target-validation protocols are asserted to isolate interactional manipulability, yet no content analysis, information-neutrality controls, or comparison to human judgment shifts under the same challenges is reported. Without such evidence, the reversals could reflect legitimate incorporation of new arguments rather than a distinct manipulability failure mode.

    Authors: The anti-baseline protocol quantifies stability under neutral re-evaluation to show that ordinary reevaluation produces minimal change, while the counterbalanced target-validation protocol separates net directional steering from interactional effects. We also report low-overlap justifications for revised decisions and degradation in agreement with human preferences. We did not include formal content analysis of argument neutrality or direct human-judge comparisons under the same challenges. We will add an explicit limitations paragraph discussing these points and clarifying how the existing metrics support a manipulability interpretation, but new human experiments fall outside the current study scope. revision: partial

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  • Direct comparison of LLM-judge shifts to human-judge shifts under identical post-decision challenges (would require new human annotation experiments)

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical derivation

full rationale

The paper reports direct experimental measurements of LLM judge behavior under repeated evaluation and post-decision challenge protocols on MT-Bench and AlpacaEval. The Evaluation Robustness Score (ERS) is defined explicitly from observed reversal rates and counterbalanced directional effects in the collected data. No equations, derivations, or claims reduce reported outcomes to fitted parameters by construction, nor do any load-bearing steps rely on self-citation chains or imported uniqueness results. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks through its empirical protocol and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the empirical observation that post-decision interaction changes outcomes; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced beyond the definition of the two challenge protocols and the ERS formula itself.

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