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

126 papers, page 1 of 3

1. CVPR 2025ASHiTA: Automatic Scene-grounded HIerarchical Task Analysis
2. CVPR 2025LLaVA-Critic: Learning to Evaluate Multimodal Models
3. CVPR 2025Period-LLM: Extending the Periodic Capability of Multimodal Large Language Model
4. ICLR 2025A Statistical Framework for Ranking LLM-based Chatbots
5. ICLR 2025AgentSquare: Automatic LLM Agent Search in Modular Design Space
6. ICLR 2025An Empirical Analysis of Uncertainty in Large Language Model Evaluations
7. ICLR 2025BadJudge: Backdoor Vulnerabilities of LLM-As-A-Judge
8. ICLR 2025Better than Your Teacher: LLM Agents that learn from Privileged AI Feedback
9. ICLR 2025Beyond correlation: The impact of human uncertainty in measuring the effectiveness of automatic evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge
10. ICLR 2025Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization
11. ICLR 2025Cheating Automatic LLM Benchmarks: Null Models Achieve High Win Rates
12. ICLR 2025Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Submodular File Selection
13. ICLR 2025Controlled LLM Decoding via Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing
14. ICLR 2025Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
15. ICLR 2025Do LLMs have Consistent Values?
16. ICLR 2025GraphEval: A Lightweight Graph-Based LLM Framework for Idea Evaluation
17. ICLR 2025HShare: Fast LLM Decoding by Hierarchical Key-Value Sharing
18. ICLR 2025Judge Decoding: Faster Speculative Sampling Requires Going Beyond Model Alignment
19. ICLR 2025JudgeBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Judges
20. ICLR 2025Justice or Prejudice? Quantifying Biases in LLM-as-a-Judge
21. ICLR 2025Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems
22. ICLR 2025Language Models Are Implicitly Continuous
23. ICLR 2025Latent Space Chain-of-Embedding Enables Output-free LLM Self-Evaluation
24. ICLR 2025Learning LLM-as-a-Judge for Preference Alignment
25. ICLR 2025Limits to scalable evaluation at the frontier: LLM as judge won’t beat twice the data
26. ICLR 2025LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Limited LLM Benchmark
27. ICLR 2025On Calibration of LLM-based Guard Models for Reliable Content Moderation
28. ICLR 2025Pangea: A Fully Open Multilingual Multimodal LLM for 39 Languages
29. ICLR 2025Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Data Pruning With Small Reference Models
30. ICLR 2025Progressive Mixed-Precision Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference
31. ICLR 2025RevisEval: Improving LLM-as-a-Judge via Response-Adapted References
32. ICLR 2025RMB: Comprehensively benchmarking reward models in LLM alignment
33. ICLR 2025RocketEval: Efficient automated LLM evaluation via grading checklist
34. ICLR 2025SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
35. ICLR 2025Selective Attention Improves Transformer
36. ICLR 2025SpinQuant: LLM Quantization with Learned Rotations
37. ICLR 2025SqueezeAttention: 2D Management of KV-Cache in LLM Inference via Layer-wise Optimal Budget
38. ICLR 2025Style Outweighs Substance: Failure Modes of LLM Judges in Alignment Benchmarking
39. ICLR 2025ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling
40. ICLR 2025Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement
41. ICML 2025Accelerating Unbiased LLM Evaluation via Synthetic Feedback
42. ICML 2025Active Evaluation Acquisition for Efficient LLM Benchmarking
43. ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
44. ICML 2025am-ELO: A Stable Framework for Arena-based LLM Evaluation
45. ICML 2025Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle
46. ICML 2025BaWA: Automatic Optimizing Pruning Metric for Large Language Models with Balanced Weight and Activation
47. ICML 2025Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression
48. ICML 2025Copilot Arena: A Platform for Code LLM Evaluation in the Wild
49. ICML 2025CoSER: Coordinating LLM-Based Persona Simulation of Established Roles
50. ICML 2025Demystifying Singular Defects in Large Language Models

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.