4 papers
No Judgment Without a Reason: Counterfactual Receipts for Versioned AI Evaluators
Ye Chen, Weining Zhang
Evaluators often produce correct labels via flawed reasoning, a critical failure for agentic systems gating actions, routing reviews, or supplying training feedback. Standard evalu…
UpgradeBench: A Decision-Centric Benchmark for Upgrading Fine-Tuned LLM Specialists
Ye Chen, Weining Zhang
Organizations maintain task-specific adapters for open-weight language models, and each new base-model release forces a migration decision: retain existing specialists, port adapte…
Do SpeechLMs Hear Their Own Opinions? Diagnosing and Mitigating Previous-Belief Contamination in Streaming Emotion Understanding
Haoyue Liu, Zhichao Wang, Ye Chen +2
Streaming emotion understanding uses historical state while continuously interpreting current audio, often feeding the model's previous prediction back as context. We show that thi…
Share the Judge, Learn the Deferral: Where Specialization Helps LLM Evaluation
Ye Chen, Weining Zhang
Agentic systems generate outputs faster than human review. We contrast two LLM evaluator specialization strategies: specialized judge weights, or rule-based deferral policies for s…