REVIEW 4 major objections 8 minor 1 cited by
YESciEval: Robust LLM-as-a-Judge for Scientific Question Answering
T0 review · 4 major / 8 minor · reviewed 2026-08-07 · deepseek-v4-flash
Pith's one-line read Training turns a small open LLM into a reliable science-answer judge.
desk verdict Useful corpus and an honest empirical observation, but the robustness claim is in-distribution and needs human validation before it can carry the paper. read the letter →
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing machinery is the contrastive preference pair $(y_{\text{good}}, y_{\text{bad}})$ built from rubric scores: for adversarial data, desirable scores are defined as 1 for extreme and $\le 3$ for subtle perturbations across all nine rubrics, so any evaluation above that threshold becomes the bad sample. The nine rubrics—cohesion, conciseness, readability, coherence, integration, relevancy, correctness, completeness, informativeness—are scored on a 1–5 Likert scale and organized into linguistic, logical, and content dimensions. Training applies QLoRA supervised fine-tuning on benign evaluations, then Contrastive Preference Optimization (CPO), a DPO variant with hard negatives plus a behavior-cloning negative-log-likelihood term, to make the policy prefer good evaluations over bad ones. This contrast between benign and rubric-specific adversarial examples is what teaches the judge to penalize quality deterioration rather than to flatter every answer.
What would settle it
Take the aligned judge and give it a benign synthesis with one unrelated sentence appended at the end, the exact correctness/extreme perturbation, then ask human raters to score only the factual correctness of the original content; if most humans rate it above 1 while the judge assigns 1, the rubric-specific discrimination claim fails. A broader version scores a random sample of the adversarial test set by human raters on all nine rubrics and measures how often the human score disagrees with the paper's assumed 1/≤3 labels.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
On the paper's own terms, the discovery is that optimism bias in LLM-as-a-judge evaluation of scienceQ&A is not an incurable property of small models: after QLoRA-based supervised fine-tuning on benign rubric scores and reinforcement learning (CPO) on preference pairs built from benign and adversarially perturbed responses, a Llama 3.1 8B evaluator stabilized as a reliable judge. It assigned relatively high scores to benign syntheses, scored extreme adversarial variants around 1, and subtle variants around 3 across the nine rubrics. The paper identifies SFT alone as insufficient (it amplifies optimism) and RL on adversarial data alone as overcorrecting; only the joint benign-plus-adversarial RL setting produces the desired discrimination, and it does so without human annotation or proprietary model calls.
Load-bearing premise
The training assumes that every hand-designed adversarial edit makes the response genuinely bad on the rubric it targets, so the correct score is exactly 1 for extreme edits and at most 3 for subtle edits across all nine rubrics, rather than merely adding a recognizable textual cue.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- A cost-free, open-source evaluator for scienceQ&A becomes feasible: the aligned Llama 3.1 8B judge can replace proprietary judge calls and human annotation in the evaluation loop.
- Optimism bias is not an unavoidable failure of small evaluators; the same SFT-plus-RL recipe can be applied to other open-source LLMs and to other rubric-based evaluation tasks.
- Because the correct score for each adversarial perturbation is known by construction, preference data for RLAIF-style training can be generated without human raters.
- The released datasets and the 48 judge configurations give downstream researchers a fixed benchmark for comparing any new evaluator against non-proprietary judgments.
Reading between the lines
- The method's robustness is bounded by its perturbation inventory: an evaluator trained on sports-sentence injections and sentence shuffles may learn those specific cues rather than a general capacity for critical judgment, so performance on unseen adversarial styles remains an open question.
- The same rubric-adversarial recipe could transfer to other NLG tasks such as summarization, translation, or long-form QA, where optimism bias is also reported; a cheap experiment would be to train separate judges on each task's rubrics and adversarial heuristics.
- A stronger validation would compare the aligned judge's scores against human ratings on the same adversarial instances, since the paper deliberately avoids human references and the assumed 1/≤3 labels are untested against human judgment.
- In production, the aligned judge's low scores could serve as a cheap filter before human review: extreme cases are clear rejects, while subtle cases near 3 can be routed to closer inspection.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The paper introduces YESciEval, a framework for evaluating science question-answering outputs using a nine-rubric Likert-scale scheme, with adversarial perturbations designed per rubric, and an alignment pipeline (SFT followed by Contrastive Preference Optimization) applied to Llama-3.1-8B to reduce the optimism bias of LLM-as-a-judge systems. The authors release datasets, evaluation scores, and trained model checkpoints, and report that the SFT+RL(benign+adversarial) model assigns high scores to benign syntheses, scores near 1 for extreme adversarial variants, and scores near 3 for subtle adversarial variants, claiming that this demonstrates robustness as a scientific QA judge.
Significance. If the central claim were fully supported, the contribution would be practically valuable: a small open-source judge that does not require proprietary APIs or human annotation would lower the cost of evaluating scientific QA systems, and the released datasets and code would support reproducibility and further research. The nine-rubric scheme is a reasonable synthesis of prior evaluation rubrics, and the decision to evaluate and release multiple LLM-as-a-judge configurations (48 configurations across four generators and evaluators) is a commendable engineering contribution. However, the paper's primary evidence for the robustness claim is an evaluation that is in-distribution with respect to the adversarial perturbation heuristics used to construct the reinforcement learning labels, and there is no human gold-standard validation of the final aligned judge. The strengths of the released artifacts do not by themselves establish that the trained judge has learned rubric-faithful evaluation skill rather than surface-level cues of the specific perturbation types.
major comments (4)
- [Section 6 / Figure 4; Section 5] The RQ3 result is an in-distribution evaluation: the RL training data in Section 5 defines desirable scores as 1 for extreme and ≤3 for subtle adversarial variants across the nine rubrics, and the test adversarial sets in Section 4.4 are generated with the same rubric-level heuristics (e.g., appending sports news for Correctness/Relevancy, swapping the last two sentences for Cohesion, removing connectors for Integration). The green line in Figure 4 therefore demonstrates that the model reproduces the label mapping it was trained to reproduce, which does not separate genuine rubric-based judgment from shortcut learning of edit patterns. To support the claim that the model is a robust evaluator, the paper needs either a human gold-standard evaluation of the final aligned judge on the test sets, or an out-of-distribution evaluation with perturbation types or naturally degraded responses not seen during RL training.
- [Section 4.4 / Appendix B.3] The perturbation heuristics are assumed to degrade exactly the targeted rubric, but this assumption is not validated. For example, swapping the last two sentences may preserve cohesion in many scientific summaries, and appending a sentence from another synthesis in the same domain may be off-topic for Relevancy without being a factual error for Correctness. Since the RL labels in Section 5 assign scores of 1 or ≤3 to all such variants, the model can be trained to emit arbitrary low scores for texts containing certain surface edits rather than to judge rubric-specific quality. The paper states in Section 4.4 that 'these perturbations systematically degrade response quality,' but no evidence (human ratings, pilot studies, or per-instance checks) is provided to verify that each heuristic affects the intended rubric and no other.
- [Appendix C; Section 6] The manual inspection reported in Appendix C was performed only on the vanilla Llama 8B evaluator, not on the SFT+RL models whose behavior is central to RQ3. Consequently, the qualitative claim in Section 6 that the final model 'stabilized as a robust evaluator' rests entirely on automated score comparisons without any human validation of the trained judge's outputs. In addition, the quantitative comparisons in Tables 7–14 and Figure 4 report mean scores without error bars, confidence intervals, or significance tests, leaving it unclear whether the differences between the green and other lines are robust to sampling variability.
- [Section 9] The Limitations section appropriately acknowledges that 'broader generalization remains an open question,' but the abstract and introduction claim a robust and cost-free evaluation framework without this scope restriction. The central claim should be explicitly limited to the specific perturbation heuristics used in the paper unless additional experiments (human validation or out-of-distribution adversarial sets) are provided. As written, the external validity of the robustness result is not established.
minor comments (8)
- [Section 5, CPO equation] The CPO loss equation is typeset with unclear alignment between the subscript annotations and the terms; please rewrite it so that L_prefer and L_NLL are clearly identified as the two additive terms.
- [Figure 4 caption] The figure legend does not clearly map all colored lines to the model variants described in the text; please ensure that the blue, yellow, red, and green lines are labeled consistently with the caption and that the 'SFT (adversarial) + RL (benign+adversarial)' label used in Tables 15–16 is reconciled with the naming convention used elsewhere.
- [Section 4.5, counts] The evaluation counts are consistent (348×3×9×4 = 37,584 for ORKGSyn and 73×3×9×4 = 7,884 for BioASQ), but the text says 'resulted in 37,584 evaluation scores for ORKGSyn' while also listing '9,396 evaluations per model'; please clarify that the former is the total across all four evaluators.
- [Section 5, Data Preparation for RL] The sentence 'We impose a 100-per-rubrics, per-LLMeval threshold (for ORKGSyn, this threshold is set to 500)' is unclear because the threshold seems to vary by dataset but not by model; please specify whether it is per rubric per model or per rubric overall, and explain the rationale for the ORKGSyn value.
- [Appendix G] There is a typo: 'The fine-tuning threats each LLMgen' should be 'treats'; also, the phrase 'SF Tdataset stats' is missing a space.
- [References] In the Introduction, citations to BLEU and ROUGE use keys (2002a) and (2004a), while the reference list entries are (Papineni et al., 2002b) and (Lin, 2004b); please harmonize the citation keys.
- [Appendix B.3, manual cleanup] The appendix notes that the Llama 8B and 70B models frequently appended phrases like 'Here is a redundant sentence...' and that 'We manually revised over 100 responses generated by the Llama 8B model and 18 by the Llama 70B'; this manual cleanup contradicts the abstract's claim that the approach is 'independent of ... human feedback', and the paper should acknowledge this dependence in the main text.
- [Section 1, 'cost-free'] The footnote clarifies that 'cost-free' excludes compute, but the abstract and introduction state the approach is 'cost-free' without this caveat; please qualify the claim in the abstract.
Circularity Check
Apparent robustness is in-distribution: RL labels and RQ3 evaluation share the same perturbation taxonomy, so the trained judge is rewarded for reproducing its own target scores.
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fitted input called prediction
[Section 5 (Data Preparation for RL), Section 4.4 (Adversarial Corpus), Section 6 (RQ3)]
"we define desirable scores as 1 for extreme and ≤ 3 for subtle adversarial variants across the nine rubrics. The adversarial perturbation heuristics, for both variants, were designed at the fine-grained rubric level. ... When RL was trained on both benign and adversarial samples (green), Llama 8B stabilized as a robust evaluator ... scoring around 1 in extreme cases and around 3 in subtle cases, demonstrating rubric-specific discrimination."
The RQ3 headline behavior is the RL target: the same subtle/exreme perturbation taxonomy defines both the preference labels in Section 5 and the test conditions in Section 4.4 and Figure 4. Reporting observed scores of about 1 and about 3 as evidence of 'robustness' measures how well the model reproduces the label rule it was trained to satisfy, not agreement with an independent standard. The paper's own observation that RL on adversarial data alone collapses benign scores to about 3 shows that the ≤3 threshold directly shapes behavior. Appendix C inspects only the vanilla Llama 8B, so the trained judge is never validated against human judgments.
full rationale
The strongest circularity is in the RQ3 claim. The RL preference data define 'desirable scores as 1 for extreme and ≤ 3 for subtle adversarial variants across the nine rubrics,' and the adversarial test sets are constructed with the same rubric-level heuristics described in Section 4.4 (for example, appending sports news for Relevancy and Correctness, swapping the last two sentences for Cohesion, removing connectors for Integration). The green line in Figure 4 then reports scores close to 1 on extreme and close to 3 on subtle cases; this is an in-distribution match to the training signal, so it does not by itself demonstrate that the model learned general rubric-faithful evaluation rather than surface cues such as sports sentences, tweets, redundant phrasing, or shuffled sentence order. The paper even reports that RL with only adversarial data pushed benign scores down to about 3, which is direct evidence that the ≤3 threshold, rather than an independent notion of quality, was driving the score level. No human validation of the final aligned judge is provided: Appendix C manually analyzes only vanilla Llama 8B, and the perturbation heuristics are not shown to consistently degrade the targeted rubric (for instance, swapping the last two sentences may preserve cohesion in many scientific summaries). The framework still has independent content in the benign SFT data, the released datasets, and the comparisons against vanilla models and larger LLMs, so the circularity is partial rather than total. The core 'robust evaluator' result, however, reduces in part to fitting the RL label rule, yielding a score of 6.
Assumptions & free parameters
free parameters (2)
- Adversarial expected-score thresholds =
extreme = 1, subtle <= 3
- Per-rubric sampling caps =
100 per rubric per evaluator (ORKGSyn: 500)
assumptions (4)
- ad hoc to paper The rubric-based adversarial perturbations degrade exactly the quality dimension they target.
- domain assumption LLM-generated labels from vanilla evaluators are a valid training signal for SFT.
- domain assumption The ORKGSyn and BioASQ paper-to-question relevance mappings are correct.
- domain assumption No human feedback is needed to establish evaluator reliability.
Cite this review
Pith. "Pith review of YESciEval: Robust LLM-as-a-Judge for Scientific Question Answering." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/WKD3OVPK
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read the original abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) drive scientific question-answering on modern search engines, yet their evaluation robustness remains underexplored. We introduce YESciEval, an open-source framework that combines fine-grained rubric-based assessment with reinforcement learning to mitigate optimism bias in LLM evaluators. We release multidisciplinary scienceQ&A datasets, including adversarial variants, with evaluation scores from multiple LLMs. Independent of proprietary models and human feedback, our approach enables scalable, cost-free evaluation. By advancing reliable LLM-as-a-judge models, this work supports AI alignment and fosters robust, transparent evaluation essential for scientific inquiry.
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Cohesion 4.95 4.91 4.68 4.95 4.95 3.00 4.68
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Completeness 4.41 4.33 4.27 4.91 4.23 3.00 4.32
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Conciseness 4.95 4.91 4.68 4.45 4.77 3.00 3.82
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Correctness 4.95 4.92 4.64 4.73 5.00 3.00 5.00
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Informativeness 4.82 4.82 4.86 5.00 4.68 3.00 5.00
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Integration 4.91 4.91 4.55 4.77 4.95 3.00 4.59
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Readability 4.95 4.91 4.73 4.64 4.95 3.00 4.55
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Relevancy 4.95 4.83 4.86 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 extreme
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Coherence 2.50 3.00 3.00 4.64 3.55 1.00 1.00
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Cohesion 4.05 4.55 3.82 4.77 4.93 3.00 4.41
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Completeness 2.68 3.31 3.27 4.64 3.82 1.05 1.00
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Conciseness 1.41 1.00 1.50 2.27 4.77 1.00 1.00
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Correctness 3.91 3.90 3.73 4.68 3.59 1.00 1.00
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Informativeness 3.59 4.20 3.68 4.68 3.41 1.09 1.00
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Integration 3.73 4.08 3.18 4.77 4.82 3.00 3.14
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Readability 2.05 2.15 2.55 4.14 1.89 1.00 1.00
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Relevancy 2.64 3.40 3.55 4.86 2.77 1.00 1.00 subtle
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Coherence 3.82 4.10 4.14 4.82 4.86 2.91 2.73
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Cohesion 4.05 4.25 4.23 4.68 4.82 3.00 4.64
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Completeness 4.14 4.09 3.82 4.82 4.36 3.00 3.91
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Conciseness 3.09 2.60 2.41 3.68 4.55 2.41 2.27
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Correctness 4.23 4.50 4.14 4.64 4.86 3.00 2.82
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Informativeness 4.18 4.40 4.23 4.95 4.59 3.00 2.77
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Integration 4.09 4.27 3.86 4.64 4.91 3.00 4.64
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Readability 3.14 2.92 3.45 4.18 4.18 2.18 1.82
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.32 4.20 4.36 5.00 4.77 2.77 2.73 Table 7: BioASQ dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = LLaMA-3.1-8B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 2.91 4.90 2.91 4.91 3.64 2.55 3.09
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Cohesion 2.91 4.90 2.86 4.86 4.05 2.32 2.86
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Completeness 2.50 3.29 2.73 4.64 3.86 2.45 2.64
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Conciseness 2.91 4.80 3.36 4.23 3.73 2.00 2.50
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Correctness 3.00 3.73 3.18 4.86 3.91 2.91 3.09
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Informativeness 2.77 4.36 3.00 4.95 3.27 2.50 2.95
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Integration 2.86 4.55 2.77 4.77 3.86 1.95 2.82
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Readability 2.91 4.90 3.05 4.41 3.23 2.05 2.86
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Relevancy 2.95 3.80 3.23 4.95 3.73 2.50 3.09 extreme
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Coherence 1.50 2.09 2.14 3.59 2.73 1.00 1.00
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Cohesion 2.50 3.92 2.64 4.50 3.45 2.27 2.68
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Completeness 1.73 2.36 2.32 4.18 2.59 1.09 1.00
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Conciseness 1.50 1.17 1.55 2.41 3.91 1.18 1.00
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Correctness 2.32 3.27 2.50 3.91 2.95 1.00 1.00
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Informativeness 2.09 3.18 2.41 3.95 2.05 1.00 1.00
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Integration 2.23 3.38 2.32 4.45 3.14 1.91 2.14
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Readability 1.50 1.75 1.50 3.68 2.05 1.00 1.00
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Relevancy 1.45 2.73 2.41 3.95 2.00 1.00 1.00 subtle
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Coherence 1.95 3.40 2.32 4.41 3.09 2.45 1.91
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Completeness 2.59 3.36 2.95 4.77 3.59 2.64 2.27
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Conciseness 1.86 1.86 1.64 3.23 3.82 1.64 1.32
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Correctness 2.27 3.50 2.82 4.55 3.50 3.00 2.18
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Informativeness 2.32 3.82 2.59 4.55 3.14 2.68 2.18
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Integration 2.45 3.83 2.50 4.36 3.41 1.86 2.86
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Readability 1.91 1.92 2.41 4.05 3.27 1.68 1.50
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 2.36 3.67 2.68 4.82 3.14 2.41 2.09 Table 8: BioASQ dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = LLaMA-3.1-70B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 5.00 5.00 4.95 4.95 5.00 3.00 4.95
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Cohesion 5.00 5.00 4.91 4.95 5.00 3.00 4.45
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Completeness 4.27 4.00 4.36 4.73 4.27 3.00 4.05
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Conciseness 5.00 4.91 4.91 4.55 4.86 3.00 4.45
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Correctness 4.95 5.00 4.91 4.82 4.91 3.00 4.91
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Informativeness 4.68 4.83 4.91 4.82 4.86 3.00 4.95
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Integration 4.91 5.00 4.86 4.77 4.91 3.00 4.86
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Readability 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.45 4.86 3.00 4.86
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Relevancy 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.91 5.00 3.00 4.91 extreme
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Coherence 2.45 2.50 2.82 4.36 3.32 1.00 1.00
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Cohesion 4.09 4.46 3.77 4.73 4.86 3.00 4.59
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Completeness 2.32 3.10 2.68 3.95 3.91 1.00 1.00
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Conciseness 2.27 1.60 2.09 3.27 4.77 1.09 1.09
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Correctness 3.68 3.70 3.77 4.36 3.36 1.00 1.00
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Informativeness 3.41 3.60 3.50 4.41 2.32 1.00 1.00
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Integration 3.59 4.00 3.23 4.68 4.95 3.00 3.14
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Readability 1.91 1.75 2.23 4.23 2.05 1.00 1.00
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Relevancy 2.18 2.70 3.59 4.68 2.55 1.00 1.00 subtle
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Coherence 3.64 4.10 4.09 4.77 4.91 3.00 3.00
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Cohesion 4.18 4.45 4.09 4.68 4.86 3.00 4.59
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Completeness 3.64 4.10 3.86 4.95 4.27 3.00 3.59
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Conciseness 2.82 2.70 2.36 3.86 4.59 2.59 2.14
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Correctness 4.23 4.30 4.00 4.59 4.73 3.00 3.14
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Informativeness 4.14 4.50 4.18 4.82 4.64 3.00 3.18
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.23 4.50 4.27 4.86 4.95 2.95 3.00 Table 9: BioASQ dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = Qwen2.5-72B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 4.91 5.00 4.95 5.00 5.00 3.00 4.91
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Completeness 4.27 4.00 4.41 4.57 4.32 3.00 4.36
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[107]
Conciseness 4.95 4.67 4.95 4.59 4.73 2.86 3.77
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[108]
Correctness 4.95 5.00 4.82 4.86 4.95 3.00 4.95
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[109]
Informativeness 4.64 4.75 4.91 4.91 4.73 3.00 4.91
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[110]
Integration 4.86 4.83 4.64 5.00 4.95 3.00 4.68
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[111]
Readability 4.95 4.83 5.00 4.50 4.75 2.91 4.86
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[112]
Relevancy 4.91 4.93 4.95 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 extreme
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[113]
Coherence 2.27 2.09 3.14 4.41 3.50 1.00 1.00
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[114]
Cohesion 3.95 4.42 3.77 4.68 4.91 3.00 4.18
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[115]
Completeness 2.32 2.45 2.91 4.18 3.68 1.00 1.00
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[116]
Conciseness 1.95 1.38 1.82 3.09 4.45 1.09 1.09
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[117]
Correctness 3.68 3.45 3.73 4.55 3.41 1.00 1.00
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[118]
Informativeness 3.45 3.18 3.73 4.45 3.00 1.05 1.00
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[119]
Integration 3.59 3.77 3.09 4.68 4.82 2.91 3.00
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[120]
Readability 2.05 2.15 2.27 4.00 2.14 1.00 1.00
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[121]
Relevancy 2.32 2.92 3.64 4.73 3.32 1.00 1.00 subtle
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[122]
Coherence 3.77 3.80 4.14 4.91 4.91 2.95 3.05
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[123]
Cohesion 4.00 4.79 4.27 4.77 4.86 3.00 4.41
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[124]
Completeness 3.86 4.20 3.50 4.91 4.50 3.00 3.68
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[125]
Conciseness 2.91 3.15 2.82 3.91 4.91 2.59 2.27
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[126]
Correctness 4.23 4.27 4.14 4.77 4.68 3.00 3.23
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[127]
Informativeness 4.18 4.20 4.32 4.86 4.59 2.95 3.14
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[128]
Integration 3.91 4.09 3.77 4.59 4.95 3.00 4.45
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[129]
Readability 2.82 2.54 3.73 4.36 4.59 2.27 1.95
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.27 4.18 4.41 5.00 5.00 2.95 2.95 Table 10: BioASQ dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = Mistral-Large. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 4.74 4.95 4.78 4.97 4.95 3.00 4.98
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[132]
Cohesion 4.72 4.93 4.71 4.97 4.88 3.00 4.95
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[133]
Completeness 4.28 4.40 4.52 4.50 4.59 3.00 4.76
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[134]
Conciseness 4.74 4.71 4.70 4.18 4.77 3.00 4.03
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[135]
Correctness 4.86 4.97 4.79 4.83 4.91 3.00 4.94
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[136]
Informativeness 4.57 4.93 4.77 4.97 4.89 3.06 4.97
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Integration 4.70 4.90 4.68 4.89 4.93 3.00 4.91
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[138]
Readability 4.77 4.94 4.86 4.41 4.85 3.00 4.86
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[139]
Relevancy 4.70 4.92 4.81 4.99 4.93 3.02 4.96 extreme
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Coherence 2.58 3.42 3.35 4.27 4.81 1.04 1.00
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[141]
Cohesion 3.76 4.33 3.44 4.85 4.78 3.00 4.41
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[142]
Completeness 2.63 2.94 3.56 3.69 4.59 1.00 1.00
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[143]
Conciseness 1.11 1.05 1.57 1.70 4.64 1.00 1.00
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[144]
Correctness 3.81 4.09 3.98 4.24 4.82 1.01 1.00
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[145]
Informativeness 3.62 4.26 3.80 4.78 4.82 1.03 1.00
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[146]
Integration 3.37 3.90 3.16 4.72 4.86 2.73 3.10
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[147]
Readability 2.20 2.13 2.93 3.77 4.76 1.01 1.00
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[148]
Relevancy 2.78 3.51 3.58 4.99 4.81 1.02 1.00 subtle
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[149]
Coherence 4.21 4.70 4.51 4.81 4.95 3.00 3.44
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[150]
Cohesion 3.98 4.49 3.96 4.90 4.84 3.00 4.52
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[151]
Completeness 4.10 4.23 3.92 4.99 4.67 3.00 4.20
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[152]
Conciseness 2.71 2.36 2.50 3.62 4.70 2.47 2.38
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[153]
Correctness 4.48 4.78 4.44 4.57 4.93 3.00 3.37
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[154]
Informativeness 4.35 4.79 4.50 4.90 4.87 3.03 3.38
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[155]
Integration 4.01 4.52 4.02 4.92 4.91 2.99 4.72
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[156]
Readability 3.22 2.88 3.79 4.49 4.82 2.85 2.98
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.35 4.70 4.56 4.99 4.96 2.99 3.54 Table 11: ORKGSynthesis dataset detailed evaluation results of variousLLMeval over LLMgen = LLaMA-3.1-8B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 4.77 4.97 4.78 5.00 4.88 3.00 4.98
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[159]
Cohesion 4.76 4.95 4.65 4.99 4.87 3.00 4.98
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[160]
Completeness 4.32 4.46 4.54 4.61 4.69 3.00 4.75
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[161]
Conciseness 4.77 4.75 4.65 4.15 4.73 2.99 4.05
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[162]
Correctness 4.89 4.96 4.83 4.80 4.92 3.00 4.92
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[163]
Informativeness 4.65 4.92 4.77 4.98 4.87 3.01 4.95
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[164]
Integration 4.76 4.90 4.56 4.92 4.92 3.00 4.96
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[165]
Readability 4.80 4.98 4.90 4.41 4.89 3.00 4.94
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[166]
Relevancy 4.73 4.90 4.75 4.99 4.93 3.03 4.94 extreme
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[167]
Coherence 2.66 3.39 3.33 4.31 4.82 1.01 1.00
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[168]
Cohesion 3.80 4.30 3.56 4.88 4.87 3.00 4.46
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[169]
Completeness 2.74 2.97 3.56 3.63 4.56 1.00 1.00
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[170]
Conciseness 1.09 1.02 1.62 2.29 4.56 1.00 1.00
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[171]
Correctness 3.90 4.07 3.85 4.25 4.89 1.02 1.00
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[172]
Informativeness 3.76 4.30 3.87 4.69 4.81 1.02 1.00
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[173]
Integration 3.50 4.03 3.27 4.74 4.88 2.83 3.07
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[174]
Readability 2.16 2.03 2.95 3.85 4.71 1.00 1.00
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[175]
Relevancy 2.80 3.67 3.70 4.92 4.86 1.00 1.00 subtle
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[176]
Coherence 4.16 4.72 4.52 4.80 4.89 3.00 3.42
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[177]
Cohesion 4.03 4.56 4.05 4.85 4.88 3.00 4.60
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[178]
Completeness 4.13 4.37 4.13 4.98 4.66 2.99 4.49
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[179]
Conciseness 2.51 2.07 2.29 3.44 4.77 2.22 2.20
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[180]
Correctness 4.35 4.76 4.31 4.50 4.92 3.00 3.38
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[181]
Informativeness 4.32 4.85 4.41 4.87 4.91 3.00 3.46
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[182]
Integration 4.08 4.49 3.98 4.93 4.90 3.00 4.87
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Readability 3.31 3.09 3.76 4.42 4.77 2.90 2.95
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.31 4.63 4.50 5.00 4.85 2.98 3.48 Table 12: ORKGSynthesis dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = LLaMA-3.1- 70B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 4.86 4.99 4.87 5.00 4.93 3.01 5.00
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Cohesion 4.86 4.98 4.78 4.99 4.90 3.00 5.00
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[187]
Completeness 4.47 4.65 4.62 4.76 4.70 3.00 4.93
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[188]
Conciseness 4.87 4.81 4.72 4.30 4.81 3.00 4.13
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[189]
Correctness 4.90 4.98 4.86 4.89 4.94 3.00 4.98
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[190]
Informativeness 4.78 4.98 4.91 4.97 4.93 3.06 5.00
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Integration 4.86 4.97 4.72 4.91 4.94 3.00 4.98
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Readability 4.89 4.97 4.90 4.44 4.87 3.00 4.98
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Relevancy 4.83 4.96 4.91 5.00 4.94 3.05 4.98 extreme
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Coherence 2.74 3.75 3.54 4.47 4.91 1.04 1.00
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Cohesion 3.94 4.44 3.70 4.91 4.88 3.00 4.51
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[196]
Completeness 2.90 2.91 3.78 3.81 4.65 1.01 1.00
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[197]
Conciseness 1.81 1.31 1.90 2.87 4.69 1.01 1.00
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[198]
Correctness 3.84 4.15 4.01 4.31 4.92 1.01 1.00
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[199]
Informativeness 3.84 4.51 3.98 4.78 4.81 1.00 1.00
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Integration 3.82 4.34 3.60 4.86 4.89 2.89 3.52
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Readability 2.38 2.16 3.07 4.18 4.76 1.00 1.00
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Relevancy 3.06 3.70 3.83 4.98 4.88 1.00 1.00 subtle
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Coherence 4.23 4.85 4.63 4.84 4.93 3.00 3.41
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Cohesion 4.16 4.61 4.11 4.96 4.92 3.00 4.83
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Completeness 4.40 4.50 4.30 4.99 4.73 3.00 4.79
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Conciseness 3.13 2.82 2.68 4.50 4.83 2.89 2.97
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Correctness 4.48 4.83 4.51 4.60 4.93 3.00 3.39
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Informativeness 4.46 4.90 4.70 4.91 4.87 3.04 3.49
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Integration 4.21 4.68 4.06 4.96 4.92 3.00 4.90
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Readability 3.71 3.21 3.86 4.53 4.82 2.91 2.98
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Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
Relevancy 4.42 4.73 4.66 4.97 4.92 3.00 3.49 Table 13: ORKGSynthesis dataset detailed evaluation results of various LLMeval over LLMgen = Qwen2.5-72B. Set Rubrics M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 benign
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Coherence 4.79 4.95 4.83 5.00 4.92 3.00 4.98
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Cohesion 4.78 4.93 4.76 4.99 4.91 2.99 4.98
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Completeness 4.39 4.50 4.61 4.62 4.81 3.00 4.86
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Conciseness 4.82 4.80 4.71 4.26 4.75 2.98 4.07
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Correctness 4.87 4.97 4.87 4.89 4.95 3.00 4.93
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Informativeness 4.70 4.94 4.85 4.97 4.92 3.03 4.95
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Integration 4.77 4.92 4.75 4.90 4.95 3.00 4.97
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Readability 4.84 4.91 4.90 4.34 4.83 2.99 4.93
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Relevancy 4.70 4.92 4.83 5.00 4.94 3.01 4.90 extreme
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Coherence 2.58 3.50 3.47 4.34 4.88 1.00 1.00
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Cohesion 3.72 4.29 3.62 4.87 4.90 2.99 4.60
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Completeness 2.76 2.76 3.61 3.67 4.58 1.00 1.00
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Conciseness 1.77 1.27 1.71 2.88 4.73 1.02 1.00
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Correctness 3.82 4.06 3.92 4.21 4.91 1.00 1.00
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Informativeness 3.69 4.43 3.90 4.83 4.87 1.00 1.00
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Integration 3.52 4.09 3.37 4.79 4.85 2.94 3.34
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Readability 2.36 2.10 2.97 3.84 4.62 1.01 1.00
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Relevancy 2.89 3.50 3.76 4.95 4.83 1.00 1.00 subtle
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Coherence 4.17 4.76 4.45 4.78 4.97 3.00 3.33
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Cohesion 3.99 4.53 3.98 4.92 4.92 3.00 4.49
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Completeness 4.05 4.38 4.11 5.00 4.66 3.00 4.64
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Conciseness 2.98 2.66 2.60 4.22 4.85 2.90 2.89
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Correctness 4.36 4.78 4.45 4.50 4.92 3.00 3.35
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Informativeness 4.32 4.85 4.50 4.91 4.95 3.02 3.39
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Integration 4.05 4.50 4.03 4.90 4.89 3.00 4.91
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Readability 3.43 3.02 3.82 4.61 4.85 2.86 2.97
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