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Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?
Ai2 发布 Old Ideas, Novel Problems 研究与 benchmark，揭示 LLM 新颖性裁判不稳定
Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel? | Ai2
allenai.orgOld Ideas, Novel Problems tests how reliably LLMs judge the novelty of research ideas, finding that small changes to the evaluation setup can produce very different verdicts.
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