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cs.CV2026

Z-Reward: Beyond Scalar Rewards by Internalizing Reasoning into Score Distributions

Xin Jin, Huanqia Cai, Zhen Li +9

The paper introduces Z-Reward, a teacher‑student framework that learns to predict full rubric‑aligned score distributions for text‑to‑image generation instead of single scalar rewa…