Checklist granularity: optimizing correlated agreement to pick the right cut

JessicaHullman · x · 2026-10-30

On checklist granularity: too fine a checklist won't produce overlap even with many reviewers; too coarse means high overlap even across different papers. The team optimizes a proxy — finding a coarsening of the atomic claim space that maximizes correlated agreement, i.e., how much more reviewers of the same paper agree than reviewers of different papers.

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