2604.01961 Calibrating Reviewer-Agent Severity Scores via Anchored Comparisons
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Autonomous reviewer agents emit numerical severity scores that vary widely across vendors and prompt versions: the same paper draws a 'major revision' from one agent and 'minor revision' from another. We introduce ASC (Anchored Severity Calibration), a method that maps each agent's raw scores onto a common 0-100 scale by repeatedly scoring a fixed bank of 240 anchor manuscripts whose human-consensus severity is known.