LLM-as-Judge papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• LLM-as-Judge went from 8 papers in 2023 to 219 in 2026, roughly 27x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most LLM-as-Judge work: 173 papers from 2023 to 2026, 43% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 78 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Evaluation and Benchmarks, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, LLM Benchmarks, is up 154x versus 27x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Free Lunch in LLM Compression: Revisiting Retraining after Pruning
• ICML 2026A Judge-Aware Ranking Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models without Ground Truth
• ICLR 2026Addressing Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods for Natural Language Generation
• CVPR 2026Pixels Dont Lie But Your Detector Might Bootstrapping MLLM-as-a-Judge for
• NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{BetaConform}$: Efficient MAP Estimation of LLM Ensemble Judgment Performance with Prior Transfer
• ICML 2025Active Evaluation Acquisition for Efficient LLM Benchmarking
• ICLR 2025An Empirical Analysis of Uncertainty in Large Language Model Evaluations
• CVPR 2025ASHiTA: Automatic Scene-grounded HIerarchical Task Analysis
• NeurIPS 2024BertaQA: How Much Do Language Models Know About Local Culture?
• ICML 2024CHAI: Clustered Head Attention for Efficient LLM Inference
• ICLR 2024PandaLM: An Automatic Evaluation Benchmark for LLM Instruction Tuning Optimization
• NeurIPS 2023Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
• ICML 2023SAM operates far from home: eigenvalue regularization as a dynamical phenomenon
• ICLR 2023On the complexity of nonsmooth automatic differentiation
• NeurIPS 2026A Stratified Multi-Rater Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Standardized Patients with a Deployed Data-Generation Platform
• ICML 2026Are LLM Evaluators Really Narcissists? Sanity Checking Self-Preference Evaluations
• ICLR 2026AutoMetrics: Approximate Human Judgments with Automatically Generated Evaluators
• CVPR 20263DrawAgent Teaching LLM to Draw in 3D with Early Contrastive
• NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Prediction-Powered AutoEval with Reliability and Efficiency Guarantees
• ICML 2025Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators

All LLM-as-Judge papers

401 papers, page 6 of 9

251. ICLR 2025RMB: Comprehensively benchmarking reward models in LLM alignment
252. ICLR 2025RocketEval: Efficient automated LLM evaluation via grading checklist
253. ICLR 2025SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
254. ICLR 2025Selective Attention Improves Transformer
255. ICLR 2025SpinQuant: LLM Quantization with Learned Rotations
256. ICLR 2025SqueezeAttention: 2D Management of KV-Cache in LLM Inference via Layer-wise Optimal Budget
257. ICLR 2025Style Outweighs Substance: Failure Modes of LLM Judges in Alignment Benchmarking
258. ICLR 2025ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling
259. ICLR 2025Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement
260. ICML 2025Accelerating Unbiased LLM Evaluation via Synthetic Feedback
261. ICML 2025Active Evaluation Acquisition for Efficient LLM Benchmarking
262. ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
263. ICML 2025am-ELO: A Stable Framework for Arena-based LLM Evaluation
264. ICML 2025Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle
265. ICML 2025BaWA: Automatic Optimizing Pruning Metric for Large Language Models with Balanced Weight and Activation
266. ICML 2025Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression
267. ICML 2025Copilot Arena: A Platform for Code LLM Evaluation in the Wild
268. ICML 2025CoSER: Coordinating LLM-Based Persona Simulation of Established Roles
269. ICML 2025Demystifying Singular Defects in Large Language Models
270. ICML 2025Emoji Attack: Enhancing Jailbreak Attacks Against Judge LLM Detection
271. ICML 2025Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators
272. ICML 2025Exploring Criteria of Loss Reweighting to Enhance LLM Unlearning
273. ICML 2025From Jack of All Trades to Master of One: Specializing LLM-based Autoraters to a Test Set
274. ICML 2025Great Models Think Alike and this Undermines AI Oversight
275. ICML 2025Investigating Non-Transitivity in LLM-as-a-Judge
276. ICML 2025La RoSA: Enhancing LLM Efficiency via Layerwise Rotated Sparse Activation
277. ICML 2025Large Language-Geometry Model: When LLM meets Equivariance
278. ICML 2025Learning to Plan & Reason for Evaluation with Thinking-LLM-as-a-Judge
279. ICML 2025MAGELLAN: Metacognitive predictions of learning progress guide autotelic LLM agents in large goal spaces
280. ICML 2025Memorization Sinks: Isolating Memorization during LLM Training
281. ICML 2025Monte Carlo Tree Search for Comprehensive Exploration in LLM-Based Automatic Heuristic Design
282. ICML 2025Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination’s Impact on Machine Translation
283. ICML 2025Position: Don't Use the CLT in LLM Evals With Fewer Than a Few Hundred Datapoints
284. ICML 2025Position: LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method
285. ICML 2025Position: Principles of Animal Cognition to Improve LLM Evaluations
286. ICML 2025Position: The Most Expensive Part of an LLM *should* be its Training Data
287. ICML 2025Prompt-to-Leaderboard: Prompt-Adaptive LLM Evaluations
288. ICML 2025RZ-NAS: Enhancing LLM-guided Neural Architecture Search via Reflective Zero-Cost Strategy
289. ICML 2025The Emperor's New Clothes in Benchmarking? A Rigorous Examination of Mitigation Strategies for LLM Benchmark Data Contamination
290. ICML 2025Tuning LLM Judge Design Decisions for 1/1000 of the Cost
291. ICML 2025TypyBench: Evaluating LLM Type Inference for Untyped Python Repositories
292. ICML 2025Uncertainty Quantification for LLM-Based Survey Simulations
293. NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{BetaConform}$: Efficient MAP Estimation of LLM Ensemble Judgment Performance with Prior Transfer
294. NeurIPS 2025ACT as Human: Multimodal Large Language Model Data Annotation with Critical Thinking
295. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Prediction-Powered AutoEval with Reliability and Efficiency Guarantees
296. NeurIPS 2025Any Large Language Model Can Be a Reliable Judge: Debiasing with a Reasoning-based Bias Detector
297. NeurIPS 2025Ask a Strong LLM Judge when Your Reward Model is Uncertain
298. NeurIPS 2025AutoJudge: Judge Decoding Without Manual Annotation
299. NeurIPS 2025Beyond the Surface: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Alignment with Human via Internal Representations
300. NeurIPS 2025Bohdi: Heterogeneous LLM Fusion with Automatic Data Exploration

FAQ

How many LLM-as-Judge papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

401 in total: 8 in 2023, 48 in 2024, 126 in 2025, 219 in 2026.

How many LLM-as-Judge papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 88 LLM-as-Judge papers, versus 53 the year before.

How many LLM-as-Judge papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 62 LLM-as-Judge papers, versus 37 the year before.

How many LLM-as-Judge papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 64 LLM-as-Judge papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many LLM-as-Judge papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 5 LLM-as-Judge papers, versus 3 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most LLM-as-Judge papers?

NeurIPS, with 173 papers from 2023 to 2026.