"JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure" This paper shows you can just use JEV for every evaluation instead of expensive LLM. JEV basically acts as a cheap first-pass judge, returning both a verdict and how confident it is. When confidence is high, keep the answer. When it’s low, escalate to a stronger LLM. This simple routing keeps ~99% of GPT-6’s accuracy while reducing evaluation cost by a lot. https://alphaxiv.org/abs/2609.26550