A $1.87-trained open 4B judge beats Jev 1.14 on 4,035 held-out calls

MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-10-21

Developer Maziyar Panahi trained his own LLM judge on the Jev datasets: Qwen3.5-4B + Unsloth, 22 minutes on a single H200 via Hugging Face Jobs, costing $1.87. On 4,035 held-out RAG + safety calls it scored 89.4% (RAG 87.9%, safety 90.7%) vs Jev 1.14's 82.2%; untrained Qwen3.5-4B scored 71.4%, and a version distilled from Jev's own answers hit 83.3%. The twist: on 2,000 unseen PubMed judgments, Jev (916) beats the human-label-trained model (855) — only the Jev-taught 4B (922) stays ahead, suggesting generalization depends on the teacher's signal.

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