Renaming PDF to 'final_draft' Boosts LLM Review Scores: Evaluation Weirdness

CShorten30 · x · 2026-08-11

A user observed that when using LLMs to review academic papers, simply renaming the uploaded file from paper.pdf to paperfinaldraftpdfreadyforreview.pdf significantly boosts the model's average scores.

Addressing this weirdness in LLM reviews, a researcher pointed to a paper on 'Reasoning-intensive Regression,' noting that while such biases are unexpected, the problem is solvable through specific approaches.

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