Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

Zhuochun Li and co-authors submitted a paper to ICLR 2026 titled "Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry." The paper was first posted on arXiv on January 30, 2026, with a revised version submitted on July 9, 2026. It is categorized under computational linguistics and proposes an alternative evaluation approach using small language models.