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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Rubric Dropout: A Simple Way to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Rubric-as-Reward RL

Minglai Yang, Xinyu Guo, Utkarsh Tyagi +6

Reinforcement learning against rubrics, lists of criteria graded by an LLM judge, has become a standard way to post-train language models on tasks with no deterministic answer. The…

cs.LG2026

Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation: Post-Training Without Rubric Verifiers

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Anas Mahmoud, Zihao Wang +6

Rubrics have emerged as an alternative to RLVR in open-ended domains where a single ground-truth final answer is not available. Existing rubric-based training methods rely on an LL…

cs.AI2026

Not Every Rubric Teaches Equally: Policy-Aware Rubric Rewards for RLVR

Utkarsh Tyagi, Xingang Guo, MohammadHossein Rezaei +5

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has made post-training highly effective when correctness can be checked automatically. However, many important model behaviors requir…

cs.AI2026

SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Natural Sciences?

Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Elaine Lau, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie +14

Accelerating scientific discovery requires the identification of which experiments would yield the best outcomes before committing resources to costly physical validation. While ex…

cs.SD2026

Audio Hallucination Attacks: Probing the Reliability of Large Audio Language Models

Ashish Seth, Sonal Kumar, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar +5

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on audio-language tasks; however, their reliability in real-world settings remains underexplored. We introduce Audio…

cs.SD2025

Audio MultiChallenge: A Multi-Turn Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems on Natural Human Interaction

Advait Gosai, Tyler Vuong, Utkarsh Tyagi +8

End-to-end (E2E) spoken dialogue systems are increasingly replacing cascaded pipelines for voice-based human-AI interaction, processing raw audio directly without intermediate tran…