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Bias in the Loop: Auditing LLM-as-a-Judge for Software Engineering

Large Language Models are increasingly used as judges to evaluate code artifacts when exhaustive human review or executable test coverage is unavailable. LLM-judge is increasingly relevant in agentic software engineering workflows, where it can help rank candidate solutions and guide patch selection. While attractive for scale, current practice lacks a principled account of reliability and bias: repeated evaluations of the same case can disagree; small prompt edits can swing outcomes; and seemin

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Published: 18 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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