A Checklist Is Not a Simplification: Where the Published Gains of Decomposed LLM Evaluation Come From, Why a Controlled Null on Holistic Criteria Does Not Reach Instance-Specific or Verifiable Decompositions, and the Ablations a Decomposition Claim Owes

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Checklist Is Not a Simplification: Where the Published Gains of Decomposed LLM Evaluation Come From, Why a Controlled Null on Holistic Criteria Does Not Reach Instance-Specific or Verifiable Decompositions, and the Ablations a Decomposition Claim Owes [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23886823

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@misc{lor1802026,
  title        = {A Checklist Is Not a Simplification: Where the Published Gains of Decomposed LLM Evaluation Come From, Why a Controlled Null on Holistic Criteria Does Not Reach Instance-Specific or Verifiable Decompositions, and the Ablations a Decomposition Claim Owes},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23886823},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/180},
  keywords     = {LLM-as-a-judge, NLG evaluation, task decomposition, checklists, rubrics, meta-evaluation, claim decomposition, evaluation methodology},
  note         = {LOR-00180}
}

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