Jev-as-a-Judge for RAG Claim Verification: Confidence-Gated Cascading Between a Non-Generative Verifier and a Frontier LLM
Retrieval-augmented generation asks one question at volume: does this evidence support this claim? The answer is one bit, yet most pipelines obtain it from a text generator and pay generation prices for the prose wrapped around it. We compare a non-generative decision model, which returns a typed value from a declared...