Human review workflows and confidence calibration
When it is safe to cut human review of extractions: segment-level accuracy instead of one aggregate number, field-level confidence calibrated on labeled data, routing scarce reviewers to low-confidence and contradictory records, stratified sampling of auto-approved output, and calibrating LLM graders against experts.
Design human review workflows and confidence calibration
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What the exam expects
- Reject a proposal to remove human review on the strength of one aggregate accuracy figure, and ask for accuracy by document type and by field first.
- Have the model output field-level confidence scores, then set per-field review thresholds calibrated on a labeled validation set.
- Route low-confidence fields and ambiguous or contradictory source documents to human review first when reviewer capacity is limited.
- Keep a stratified random sample of high-confidence, auto-approved output under human review to measure error rates and catch novel error patterns.
- Calibrate an LLM grader against expert labels, give it an "Unknown" way out, and keep periodic human checks.
Key terms: segment (a slice of traffic such as one document type or one field); labeled validation set (documents with human-verified correct values, held out from tuning); calibration (checking that a confidence score matches observed accuracy); stratified random sample (a random sample drawn separately from each segment); LLM-as-judge (a model that grades outputs against a rubric).
Key facts
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- 97% overall can mask poor accuracy on one document type or field
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- Validate accuracy by document type and field segment
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- Field-level confidence calibrated on a labeled validation set
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- Low-confidence fields and ambiguous or contradictory sources
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- Stratified random sample of high-confidence extractions
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- Mirror the real task distribution and include edge cases
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- Test reliability first, then scale
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- Instruct it to return "Unknown" when information is insufficient
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- Rerun evals on each agent change and model upgrade; recalibrate
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- Human review only occasionally, not never
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- Sparse, self-selected, skews toward severe issues
- Why can a pipeline with 97% overall accuracy still be unsafe to automate?
- When reviewers can check only a fraction of daily volume, which records go first?
- Why sample high-confidence output that has already been auto-approved?
- What should an LLM grader be allowed to answer when it lacks information?
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