Inside the Scorer: Mechanistic Evidence on Rubric Control in LLM-Based Automated Essay Scoring from 25 Base Models

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-19

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: Camera-ready version. Accepted to PACLIC 40 (The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation); to be presented in Taipei, Taiwan, December 10-12, 2026. Code at https://github.com/lopentu/inside-the-scorer-paclic2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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