Study Finds Majority Voting for LLM Evals Ineffective; Human Labels Still Essential
randal_olson · x · 2026-07-30
A study on LLM evaluation methodologies reveals that the common trick of running an eval multiple times and taking the majority answer yields disappointing results.
Theoretically, if a grader has an 80% accuracy, running it 9 times with majority voting should boost accuracy to 98%. However, experiments show that actual accuracy only reaches 84.5% because the grader consistently makes mistakes on the exact same edge cases. The author emphasizes that human labels remain the definitive solution and provides a method to calculate the required volume of human annotation.
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