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Prior work relied on n=5 conditions; this study expands to 11 evaluator–agent conditions, computes γ and H for all and CV(N=5) for seven with sufficient seeds. Results confirm a strong tradeoff: low γ yields high noise, high γ yields low noise, with no observed region combining low coupling and low CV. Per-condition metrics are released as a standardized benchmark dataset.","arXiv :2607 .00304v 1 [ cs .LG] 1 Jul 2026  \nMapping the Evaluation Frontier: An Empirical Survey of the Bias-Reliability Tradeoff Across Eleven Evaluator–Agent  \nConditions  \nZewen Liu  \nAbstract  \nThe bias-reliability tradeoff conjectures that LLM evaluation systems are constrained in (γ, H, CV) space, where evaluator coupling (γ), strategy diversity (H ), and small-sample measurement reliability (CV (N)) cannot be simultaneously optimized at fixed sample size N. Prior evidence rests on n=5 conditions with complete metrics from a single study. We expand the empirical base to 11 conditions, measuring γ and H for all 11 (nine with valid weight vectors) and CV (N =5) for seven with sufficient seeds (N ≥ 5) . Five conditions provide the complete (γ, H, CV) triple. The data confirm the trade-off: conditions with low evaluator coupling (γ \u003C 0.2) exhibit high measurement noise (CV (N =5) > 1.0), while conditions with strong coupling (γ > 0.9) achieve low noise (CV (N =5) \u003C 0. 16) . The correlation r(H,γ) = −0 .989 (n=5, excluding GPT-4o conditions discussed below) confirms that evaluator coupling suppresses strategy diversity. Four GPT-4o conditions show γ =0.000 and H = 1.000 across all seeds—a pattern we attribute to insufficient evaluator signal in the June 2026 GPT-4o API version, consistent with previously documented version drift. No condition occupies the region {γ \u003C 0.2 , CV (N =5) \u003C 0.3} . We release all per-condition metrics as a standardized benchmark dataset for evaluator comparison.  \n1 Introduction  \nLLM evaluation faces a structural challenge: the properties that make an evaluator desirable—unbiasedness, reliability at small sample sizes, and encouragement of diverse agent strategies—tradeoff against each other. Anonymous (2026a) formalized this as a constrained triangle in (γ, H, CV)  \nspace, where:  \n• γ ≥ 0 is the evaluator coupling coefficient—the normalized L2 distance between evaluator-influenced strategy weights and baseline (task-only) weights. γ = 0 indicates zero evaluator influence; γ > 1 indicates the evaluator’s effect exceeds the baseline strategy norm.  \n• H ∈ [0 , 1] is the normalized Shannon entropy of the strategy weight distribution. H = 1 corresponds to a uniform distribution (all strategies equally viable); H = 0 corresponds to strategy collapse.  \n• CV (N) = std (γˆN )/E[γˆN ] is the coefficient of variation of coupling estimates at sample size N , measuring small-sample reliability. CV (N) ≪ 1 indicates stable estimates; CV (N) ≫ 1 indicates noise-dominated estimates.  \nThe trade-off mechanism is evaluator-induced strategy concentration: stronger evaluator preferences (γ ↑) suppress strategy diversity (H ↓), which in turn reduces across-seed variance and improves measurement reliability (CV ↓) . The cost of unbiased evaluation (γ ≈ 0) is high strategy diversity (H ≈ 1) and consequently high measurement noise.  \nThe original evidence for this trade-off came from n=5 conditions with complete (γ, H, CV) metrics Anonymous (2026a) . While the correlations were strong (r(H,γ) = −0 .987), five conditions  \nare insufficient to characterize the shape of the empirical frontier or assess generality across evaluator models and protocols.  \nThis paper extends the empirical base. We survey all 11 evaluator–agent conditions from the multi-experiment dataset of Anonymous (2026b), spanning four evaluator models (GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, Qwen-3.7, Claude-3.5), three executor models, and two experimental protocols. We compute standardized (γ, H, CV) metrics for each condition, identify the empirical Pareto frontier, and characterize three distinct regimes in the trade-off space. We release all per-condition data as a benchmark for evaluator comparison.  \n2 Methods  \n2.1 Data Source and Metric Computation  \nWe draw on the full dataset of Anonymous (2026b), which contains per-seed strategy weight vectorsand coupling coefficients for 11 evaluator–agent conditions, with N = 5–30 seeds per condition. 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