diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7c37147..68155b3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ __pycache__/
 # C extensions
 *.so
 
+.envrc
+
 # Distribution / packaging
 .Python
 build/
diff --git a/evalem/__init__.py b/evalem/__init__.py
index edff7d3..24d9f0a 100644
--- a/evalem/__init__.py
+++ b/evalem/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.4-alpha"
+__version__ = "0.0.5-alpha"
 
 from ._base.evaluators import Evaluator  # noqa
 from ._base.pipelines import (  # noqa
diff --git a/evalem/_base/metrics.py b/evalem/_base/metrics.py
index 06a9867..476a661 100755
--- a/evalem/_base/metrics.py
+++ b/evalem/_base/metrics.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     EvaluationPredictionInstance,
     EvaluationReferenceInstance,
     MetricResult,
+    SequenceType,
     SinglePredictionInstance,
 )
 
@@ -126,10 +127,10 @@ def _flatten_references(
         res = []
         for pred, ref in zip(predictions, references):
             # if multiple predictions, skip for now
-            if isinstance(pred, Iterable) and not isinstance(pred, str):
+            if isinstance(pred, SequenceType) and not isinstance(pred, str):
                 raise TypeError("Cannot handle multiple prediction instance")
             # if multiple references
-            elif isinstance(ref, Iterable) and not isinstance(ref, str):
+            elif isinstance(ref, SequenceType) and not isinstance(ref, str):
                 res.extend(list(map(lambda r: (pred, r), ref)))
             else:
                 res.append((pred, ref))
diff --git a/evalem/_base/structures.py b/evalem/_base/structures.py
index 8b9e538..f784333 100755
--- a/evalem/_base/structures.py
+++ b/evalem/_base/structures.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from copy import deepcopy
 from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Type, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set, Tuple, Type, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -108,3 +108,4 @@ def __hash__(self) -> str:
 MetricOutput = Union[int, float, Dict[str, Union[str, int, float]], MetricResult]
 
 PathType = Union[str, Path]
+SequenceType = Union[List, Tuple, Set]
diff --git a/evalem/nlp/__init__.py b/evalem/nlp/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bbca09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/evalem/nlp/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# flake8: noqa
+from .metrics import (
+    BartScore,
+    BertScore,
+    BleuMetric,
+    ExactMatchMetric,
+    LLMAsJudgeMetric,
+    MeteorMetric,
+    NLPMetric,
+    RougeMetric,
+    SacreBleuMetric,
+    SemanticMetric,
+)
+from .models import (
+    DefaultQAModelWrapper,
+    HFLMWrapper,
+    HFPipelineWrapper,
+    QuestionAnsweringHFPipelineWrapper,
+    TextClassificationHFPipelineWrapper,
+)
diff --git a/evalem/nlp/metrics/__init__.py b/evalem/nlp/metrics/__init__.py
index cd7026a..4954dbf 100644
--- a/evalem/nlp/metrics/__init__.py
+++ b/evalem/nlp/metrics/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from ._base import NLPMetric
 from .basics import ExactMatchMetric
+from .llm import LLMAsJudgeMetric
 from .semantics import (
     BartScore,
     BertScore,
diff --git a/evalem/nlp/metrics/llm.py b/evalem/nlp/metrics/llm.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e09b79b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/evalem/nlp/metrics/llm.py
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from enum import Enum
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+import numpy as np
+import outlines
+from loguru import logger
+from outlines.models.openai import OpenAIConfig
+
+from ..._base.structures import (
+    EvaluationPredictionInstance,
+    EvaluationReferenceInstance,
+    MetricResult,
+    SequenceType,
+)
+from ._base import NLPMetric
+
+
+class AggregationType(Enum):
+    MEAN = "mean"
+    AVERAGE = "average"
+    MAX = "max"
+
+
+class LLMAsJudgeMetric(NLPMetric):
+    """
+    Uses a language model to compute metrics by performing a binary
+    classification of prediction matching with the reference.
+    Uses N tries and compute the aggregate score for each prediction.
+
+    The prompt can be changed using `prompt` attribute.
+
+    Args:
+        ```model```: ```str```
+            OpenaAI-api compatible model name.
+            Could be:
+                - open ai models
+                - ollama models
+        ```api_base```: ```str```
+            Base URL for api requests.
+            - openai: https://api.openai.com/v1
+            - ollama: https://localhost:11434/v1
+            If `/v1` is not present, it will be appended
+        ```api_key```: ```Optional[str]```
+            API key to make request for compleition
+        ```n_tries```: ```int```
+            Number of times the judgement is done for scoring.
+            The final aggregated scores will be based on `LLMAsJudgeMetric.AggregationType`
+        ```prompt```: ```Optional[str]```
+            Prompt to use for generating the scores.
+            If not provided, defaults to `LLMAsJudgeMetric._prompt`
+        ```aggregation_type```: ```Optional[AggregationType]```
+            Decides how to aggregate scores from the multiple judgement tries.
+            Defaults to `AggregationType.MEAN` if not provided.
+        ```debug```:```bool```
+            Boolean flag for debug-mode outputs
+
+
+    Usage:
+        .. code-block: python
+
+            from evalem.nlp import LLMAsJudgeMetric
+
+            model = "ollama/llama3.2:3b"
+            api_base = "http://localhost:11434/v1"
+            model = "gpt-4o-mini"
+
+            api_base = "https://api.openai.com/v1"
+
+            references=["This is title 1", "This has title 2"]
+            predictions=[
+                ["Title 1", "title 1 absolutely"],
+                ["this is title 3, not title 2"]
+            ]
+
+            metric = LLMAsJudgeMetric(
+                model=MODEL,
+                api_base=API_BASE,
+                api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
+                # api_key=None,
+                n_tries=3,
+                prompt=PROMPT,
+                debug=True,
+            )
+            result = metric.compuate(references=references, predictions=predictions)
+    """
+
+    _prompt = (
+        "You are a very good binary classifier."
+        + " Classify the quality of prediction based on the provided reference.\n"
+        + "Prediction: {prediction}\n"
+        + "Reference: {reference}"
+    )
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: str,
+        api_base: str,
+        api_key: Optional[str] = None,
+        n_tries: int = 1,
+        temperature: float = 0.0,
+        prompt: Optional[str] = None,
+        aggregation_type: Optional[List[AggregationType]] = None,
+        debug: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(debug=debug)
+        self.model = outlines.models.openai(
+            self.__clean_model(model),
+            base_url=api_base,
+            api_key=api_key,
+            config=OpenAIConfig(temperature=temperature),
+        )
+        self.api_base = self.__clean_url(api_base)
+        self.n_tries = n_tries or 1
+        self.prompt = prompt or LLMAsJudgeMetric._prompt
+        self.aggregation_type = aggregation_type or AggregationType.MEAN
+
+        self._sanity_check_prmopt(self.prompt)
+
+    def _sanity_check_prmopt(self, prompt: str) -> bool:
+        if "{prediction}" not in prompt or "{reference}" not in prompt:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Missing '{prediction} and '{reference}' placeholders in the prmopt.",
+            )
+        return True
+
+    def __clean_model(self, model: str) -> str:
+        if model.startswith("ollama/"):
+            model = model.removeprefix("ollama/")
+        return model
+
+    def __clean_url(self, url: str) -> str:
+        if not url.endswith("/v1"):
+            url = urljoin(url, "/v1")
+        return url
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _flatten_references(
+        predictions,
+        references,
+    ) -> Tuple[EvaluationPredictionInstance, EvaluationReferenceInstance]:
+        res = []
+        for preds, refs in zip(predictions, references):
+            # multiple predictions, single reference
+            if isinstance(preds, SequenceType) and isinstance(refs, str):
+                res.extend(list(map(lambda p: (p, refs), preds)))
+
+            # single prediction, multiple references
+            elif isinstance(preds, str) and isinstance(refs, SequenceType):
+                res.extend(list(map(lambda r: (preds, r), refs)))
+
+            # single prediction, single reference
+            else:
+                res.append((preds, refs))
+
+        predictions, references = zip(*res)
+        return predictions, references
+
+    def compute(
+        self,
+        predictions: EvaluationPredictionInstance,
+        references: EvaluationReferenceInstance,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> MetricResult:
+        # make sure to flatten
+        predictions, references = self._flatten_references(predictions, references)
+        if self.debug:
+            logger.debug(f"Evaluating for {len(predictions)} predictions.")
+        generator = outlines.generate.choice(self.model, ["0", "1"])
+        res = []
+        individual_scores = []
+        for pred, ref in zip(predictions, references):
+            prompt = self.prompt.format(prediction=pred, reference=ref)
+            if self.debug:
+                logger.debug(f"Prompt :: {prompt}")
+            scores = []
+            score = np.nan
+            with outlines.caching.cache_disabled():
+                scores = self._compute_single(generator, prompt, self.n_tries)
+            score = self._aggregate_scores(scores, self.aggregation_type)
+            individual_scores.append(scores)
+            res.append(score)
+            if self.debug:
+                logger.debug(f"Scores :: {scores}")
+                logger.debug(f"Aggregated score :: {score}")
+        return MetricResult(
+            score=float(np.mean(res)),
+            total_items=len(predictions),
+            metric_name=self.__classname__,
+            extra=dict(scores=individual_scores, model=self.model),
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _aggregate_scores(
+        scores: List[int],
+        aggregation_type: AggregationType = AggregationType.MEAN,
+    ) -> float:
+        if not scores:
+            return 0.0
+        res = 0.0
+        if aggregation_type in [AggregationType.MEAN, AggregationType.AVERAGE]:
+            res = round(sum(scores) / len(scores), 4)
+        elif aggregation_type in [AggregationType.MAX]:
+            res = float(max(scores))
+        return res
+
+    def _compute_single(self, generator, prompt, n_tries) -> List[float]:
+        return [int(generator(prompt)) for n in range(n_tries)]
+
+
+def main():
+    pass
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/evalem/nlp/metrics/semantics.py b/evalem/nlp/metrics/semantics.py
index ab8b1a6..7822d8d 100755
--- a/evalem/nlp/metrics/semantics.py
+++ b/evalem/nlp/metrics/semantics.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class BertScore(JuryBasedMetric, SemanticMetric):
     Usage:
         .. code-block: python
 
-            from evalem.metrics import BertScore
+            from evalem.nlp import BertScore
 
             references = [
                 "Reference 1",
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ class BleuMetric(JuryBasedMetric, SemanticMetric):
 
         .. code-block: python
 
-            from evalem.metrics import BleuMetric
+            from evalem.nlp import BleuMetric
 
             metric = BleuMetric()
             results = metric(predictions=predictions, references=references)
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ class MeteorMetric(JuryBasedMetric, SemanticMetric):
 
         .. code-block: python
 
-            from evalem.metrics import MeteorMetric
+            from evalem.nlp import MeteorMetric
 
             metric = MeteorMetric()
             results = metric(predictions=predictions, references=references)
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ class RougeMetric(JuryBasedMetric, SemanticMetric):
 
         .. code-block: python
 
-            from evalem.metrics import RougeMetric
+            from evalem.nlp import RougeMetric
 
             metric = RougeMetric()
             results = metric(predictions=predictions, references=references)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0577a48..c71cf54 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dynamic = [
 description = "An evaluation framework for your NLP pipelines"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 authors = [
     { email = "np0069@uah.edu" },
 ]
@@ -28,26 +28,26 @@ classifiers = [
     "Topic :: Text Processing :: General",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "arrow==1.2.3",
-    "bert-score==0.3.13",
-    "datasets==2.7.0",
-    "evaluate==0.2.2",
-    "jury==2.2.3",
-    "loguru==0.6.0",
-    "numpy==1.24.2",
-    "onnx==1.14.0",
-    "onnxruntime==1.15.0",
-    "optimum==1.8.8",
-    "pandas==1.5.3",
-    "pyarrow==11.0.0",
+    "pyarrow>=18.1.0",
+    "bert-score>=0.3.13",
+    "datasets==2.9.0",
+    "evaluate>=0.4.3",
+    "jury==2.3.1",
+    "loguru>=0.6.0",
+    "numpy>=2.2.0",
+    "onnx>=1.17.0",
+    "onnxruntime>=1.20.1",
+    "optimum>=1.23.3",
+    "pandas>=2.2.3",
     "pytest==7.2.1",
     "pytest-cov==4.0.0",
-    "sacrebleu==2.3.1",
-    "scikit-learn==1.2.1",
-    "sentencepiece==0.1.99",
+    "sacrebleu==2.4.3",
+    "scikit-learn>=1.6.0",
+    "sentencepiece==0.2.0",
     "seqeval==1.2.2",
-    "torch==2.0.1",
-    "transformers==4.28.1",
+    "torch>=2.5.1",
+    "transformers>=4.47.0",
+    "pip>=24.3.1",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ nlp = [
     # dependencies for nlp module
 ]
 
+llm = [
+    "outlines>=0.1.9",
+    "openai>=1.57.3",
+]
+
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/NASA-IMPACT/evalem"