2 papers
cs.MA2026
Scaling Small Agents Through Strategy Auctions
Lisa Alazraki, William F. Shen, Yoram Bachrach +1
Small language models are increasingly viewed as a promising, cost-effective approach to agentic AI, with proponents claiming they are sufficiently capable for agentic workflows. H…
cs.LG2026
Rethinking Rubric Generation for Improving LLM Judge and Reward Modeling for Open-ended Tasks
William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Chenxi Whitehouse +6
Recently, rubrics have been used to guide LLM judges in capturing subjective, nuanced, multi-dimensional human preferences, and have been extended from evaluation to reward signals…