3 papers
cs.LG2026
Chasing the Tail: Effective Rubric-based Reward Modeling for Large Language Model Post-Training
Junkai Zhang, Zihao Wang, Lin Gui +7
Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) often suffers from reward over-optimization, where a policy model hacks the reward signals to achieve high scores while producing low-quality output…
cs.CL2025
Let it Calm: Exploratory Annealed Decoding for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
Chenghao Yang, Lin Gui, Chenxiao Yang +3
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet its success hinges on eff…
cs.CL2025
RATE: Causal Explainability of Reward Models with Imperfect Counterfactuals
David Reber, Sean Richardson, Todd Nief +2
Reward models are widely used as proxies for human preferences when aligning or evaluating LLMs. However, reward models are black boxes, and it is often unclear what, exactly, they…