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Validity Without Ground Truth: What Stated-Preference Economics Offers the Evaluation of Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers propose using stated-preference economics methods to evaluate language models on subjective questions without ground truth answers.
- Why it matters
- Matters when assessing LLM outputs on policy, values, or choices where no single correct answer exists and traditional benchmarks fail.
- Watch out
- Passing validity tests shows coherence, not correctness. The framework measures whether model answers follow economic theory, not whether they match human judgment.
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