LivingArena: Do LLMs Know What Other LLMs Don't? Peer-Probing as Scalable Evaluation

Title:LivingArena: Do LLMs Know What Other LLMs Don't? Peer-Probing as Scalable Evaluation

Abstract:Evaluating frontier LLMs is challenging: static benchmarks suffer from contamination and saturation -- leaving users unable to distinguish top models and developers blind to specific failure modes -- while human preference is subjective. In this paper, our question is: \emph{Do LLMs know what other LLMs don't? And can we leverage this dynamic for evaluation?} We present \textbf{LivingArena}, an automated, contamination-resistant evaluation framework. In this framework, models take turns proposing questions, aiming to pose items that opponents cannot answer correctly. Questioners are encouraged to actively identify and exploit opponents' knowledge boundaries, receiving rewards when the answerer fails, while the answerer is rewarded otherwise. To ensure questions contain objectively verifiable answers, a judge panel of strong models validates them, penalizing questioners if validation fails. Evaluating ten frontier LLMs, LivingArena yields a stable Elo leaderboard. Our behavioral analyses show that models identify and exploit their peers' cognitive boundaries: self-play and tournament logs indicate that they localize and double down on opponents' weak dimensions. Beyond static knowledge recall, peer probing measures factual rigor and the higher-order ability to probe an opponent's weaknesses, correlating only weakly with human preference and offering a scalable, low-cost approach to continuous evaluation.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2607.24780 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2607.24780v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.24780 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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