AI engineering glossary · RAG vector search

What is LLM-as-judge?

LLM-as-judge: Using a language model to grade another model's outputs against criteria such as faithfulness or relevance. It scales evaluation beyond manual review, though judges have biases and should be checked against human labels.

Level: intermediateTopic: RAG vector search

LLM-as-judge: an example

A judge model reads the context and answer and marks each claim 'supported' or 'unsupported'.

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LLM-as-judge is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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