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How Many Humans Is a Judge Panel Worth?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

How many human judgments does a panel of language models represent? The answer depends on what is matched. We audit categorical judge panels against empirical human label distributions, retaining disagreement that binary errors relative to one gold label collapse. We measure spectral residual diversity by matching the participation ratio of a normalized residual Gram matrix to conditionally independent human-reference draws, giving nu_H. We separately match distributional squared error, giving nu_MSE. Across three ChaosNLI tasks, the same 32-judge panels have nu_H=4.24--6.50 but nu_MSE=2.30--3

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