2 papers
cs.LG2026
Compute as Teacher: Turning Inference Compute Into Reference-Free Supervision
Dulhan Jayalath, Shashwat Goel, Thomas Foster +5
Where do learning signals come from when there is no ground truth in post-training? We show that inference compute itself can serve as supervision. By generating parallel rollouts…
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…