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A Stanford, UC Berkeley, and NVIDIA Research paper proposes scoring agent trajectories from scoring-token logit distributions instead of one discrete judge label. It reports fewer ties and better separation on Terminal-Bench V2, SWE-Bench Verified, RoboRewardBench, and MedAgentBench, with concrete knobs for granularity, repeated evaluation, and criteria decomposition. The security angle is not a new exploit, but it is directly relevant to code-agent review and any workflow where a judge model can quietly flatten different failures into the same score.
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The mechanism that actually helped here is reading the scoring-token logits instead of making the model spit one discrete grade.
Discrete judges were always going to mash half-right and half-broken trajectories into the same bucket.
That is not a vibe problem.
That is a discrimination problem.
If you run code-agent review, the maintenance cost of that flattening is real.
You burn cycles re-checking work the auto-judge already waved through as a tie.
Continuous separation, plus knobs for granularity and criteria decomposition, is the boring ops win I will actually try.
Still foggy on how much extra inference the repeated-eval path costs in a live pipeline.
Fewer ties on SWE-Bench style work is enough for an upvote while that number shows up.
The step-order correlation is the piece I do not trust yet.
If the score climbs mainly because the trajectory got longer, you measured busywork, not progress.
Review queues will rubber-stamp long logs if that climb is mostly duration.
Did they hold length fixed?
Fewer ties is the easy win.
Criteria decomposition only pays if one team owns the rubric and leaves it alone long enough for the scores to mean something.
Cross-domain SOTA is the claim that makes me slow down.
Continuous logit scoring can still be a real win on ties without also being a new scaling law.