RGSD distills rubric-conditioned teacher distributions into base policies token-by-token, matching GRPO rubric satisfaction on Qwen models with one rollout and zero verifier calls.
Yifei, Allen Chang, Chaitanya Malaviya, and Mark Yatskar
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REFLECT benchmark shows current LLM judges achieve below 55% accuracy detecting failures in evidence-based research agents, especially on evidence verification.
BRIGHT-Pro and RTriever-Synth advance reasoning-intensive retrieval by adding multi-aspect evidence evaluation and aspect-decomposed synthetic training, with the fine-tuned RTriever-4B showing gains over its base model.
DR-rubric is a two-stage framework using iterative agentic search to generate atomic verifiable constraints for GRPO-based RL, achieving competitive performance on 6 benchmarks with 1K-3K examples via bootstrap or frontier-model rubrics.
EvoRubric is a single-policy RL method that co-evolves a reasoner and a rubric generator with multi-level verification to produce dynamic rewards for open-ended LLM alignment.
Rubric-based RL verifiers can be gamed via partial criterion satisfaction and implicit-to-explicit tricks, yielding proxy gains that do not improve quality under rubric-free judges; stronger verifiers reduce but do not eliminate the mismatch.
CARE-RL combines PA-GRM for task-adaptive rewards on open-ended tasks and DACSP for modulating RL updates using historical capability directions, reporting higher total average scores than baselines on Qwen models.
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Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation: Post-Training Without Rubric Verifiers
RGSD distills rubric-conditioned teacher distributions into base policies token-by-token, matching GRPO rubric satisfaction on Qwen models with one rollout and zero verifier calls.
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Time to REFLECT: Can We Trust LLM Judges for Evidence-based Research Agents?
REFLECT benchmark shows current LLM judges achieve below 55% accuracy detecting failures in evidence-based research agents, especially on evidence verification.
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Rethinking Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval: Evaluating and Advancing Retrievers in Agentic Search Systems
BRIGHT-Pro and RTriever-Synth advance reasoning-intensive retrieval by adding multi-aspect evidence evaluation and aspect-decomposed synthetic training, with the fine-tuned RTriever-4B showing gains over its base model.
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Deep Research as Rubric for Reinforcement Learning
DR-rubric is a two-stage framework using iterative agentic search to generate atomic verifiable constraints for GRPO-based RL, achieving competitive performance on 6 benchmarks with 1K-3K examples via bootstrap or frontier-model rubrics.
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EvoRubric: Self-Evolving Rubric-Driven RL for Open-Ended Generation
EvoRubric is a single-policy RL method that co-evolves a reasoner and a rubric generator with multi-level verification to produce dynamic rewards for open-ended LLM alignment.
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Reward Hacking in Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
Rubric-based RL verifiers can be gamed via partial criterion satisfaction and implicit-to-explicit tricks, yielding proxy gains that do not improve quality under rubric-free judges; stronger verifiers reduce but do not eliminate the mismatch.
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CARE-RL: Capability-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Mitigating Cross-Domain Conflicts
CARE-RL combines PA-GRM for task-adaptive rewards on open-ended tasks and DACSP for modulating RL updates using historical capability directions, reporting higher total average scores than baselines on Qwen models.