Silent corpus corruption undermines LLM judge benchmarks across languages
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Researchers have identified a structural failure mode in synthetic evaluation corpora used to benchmark LLM-as-judge systems. When generating paired hallucinated and factual answers for multilingual faithfulness tasks, a shared decoding parameter silently truncated one producer's outputs, causing a 32-point accuracy collapse across language pairs. The finding exposes how evaluation infrastructure can degrade silently and systematically, undermining the reliability of benchmarks used to validate judge models themselves. This matters because LLM-as-judge evaluation is now foundational to model development, and undetected corpus corruption could propagate bias through entire model families.
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The deeper problem here is not the specific truncation bug but what it reveals: synthetic corpora used to validate judge models are themselves unvalidated, meaning the tools we use to check our benchmarks have no reliable ground truth to check against. The paper's proposed validation protocol is the actual contribution, not the bug report.
This connects directly to the concerns raised in 'DeepStress: Stress-Testing Deep Search Agents,' which found that standard benchmarks fail to expose fragility under degraded conditions. Both papers are pointing at the same structural gap: evaluation frameworks are built on assumptions about data integrity that rarely get tested. The difference is that DeepStress targets agent robustness at inference time, while this paper targets the corpus construction phase, one step earlier in the pipeline. The multilingual dimension also echoes 'High-Order Question Generation in a Multilingual Educational Context,' where Turkish and other non-English language pairs receive less scrutiny during benchmark design, making silent degradation harder to catch.
Watch whether any of the major LLM-as-judge benchmark maintainers (RewardBench, MT-Bench, or similar) publish retroactive audits of their synthetic corpora within the next six months. If they do not, the validation protocol proposed here will likely remain a paper artifact rather than an adopted standard.
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·arXiv cs.CL
Search agents fail under realistic evidence corruption, new stress test reveals
Search agents built on language models show surprising fragility when confronted with unreliable information, a gap that standard benchmarks fail to expose. Researchers introduced DeepStress, a controlled testing framework that systematically degrades evidence quality across three axes: trustworthiness, relevance, and factuality. Testing on HotpotQA and BrowseCompPlus revealed substantial variance in how different agents handle corrupted…
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