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Joint Reward Modeling: Internalizing Chain-of-Thought for Efficient Visual Reward Models

arXiv:2602. 07533v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward models are critical for reinforcement learning from human feedback, as they determine the alignment quality and reliability of generative models.

arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Think Before You Score: Thinking Reward Model for Visual Generation

arXiv:2609.37372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual reward models are essential for evaluating and improving visual generation models, yet existing approaches typically map task conditions and can...

By Xuehai Bai, Zhenchen Tang, Yang Shi, Dianyi Wang, Tengfei Liu, Wanshun Su, Xuanyu Zhu, Ruohui Wang, Haiwen Diao, Haotian Wang, Xiaoling Gu, Yuanxing Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

RubricRM: Generative Reward Modeling via Dynamic Rubrics for Image Generation and Editing

RubricRM introduces a pairwise generative reward modeling framework that generates an input‑specific rubric—comprising evaluation dimensions, weights, and scoring criteria—to score candidate images. The method is trained in two stages: supervised fine‑tuning to learn the rubric‑based scoring paradigm and GRPO to refine dimension‑level rewards. Experiments on text‑to‑image generation and instruction‑based image editing benchmarks demonstrate that RubricRM outperforms existing specialized reward models and competes with strong proprietary MLLM judges while using smaller backbones.

By Zijian Kan, Wei Wang, Long Luo, Bing Zhao, Xuan Ren, Weixu Qiao, Wenbo Li, Hu Wei, Lin Qu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models

WorldReward introduces a vision‑language model–based reward system for camera‑conditioned world models, combining action consistency and visual quality evaluation. It processes paired videos by splitting them into action‑aligned chunks, structuring visual evidence, and aggregating decisions through voting. The model is trained on a large, reasoning‑augmented preference dataset and outperforms GPT‑5.5 on a human‑annotated benchmark, improving both action execution and visual quality when applied to RL post‑training.

By Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang, Zhimin Li, Yujie Zhou, Jiazi Bu, Pengyang Ling, Feng Han, Zhixiong Zhang, Long Xing, Shengyuan Ding, Ziang Li, Cheng Jin, Yuhang Zang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianyu Pang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

RRC: Unlocking Generative Reward Models in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Ranking-Based Reward Construction

arXiv:2608. 06310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in reward modeling show a paradigm shift from discriminative reward models to generative reward models.

By Chenglong Wang, Ziming Zhu, Yifu Huo, Bei Li, Qiaozhi He, Yan Ding, Xiaoyang Hao, Yuxin Gao, Tianhua Zhou, Xiaojia Chang, Tongran Liu, Jingbo Zhu
arXiv AI
Jun 17

MathVis-Fine: Aligning Visual Supervision with Necessity via Progressive Dependency-Guided Training for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 17888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has extended from purely linguistic domains to multimodal scenarios; however, existing approaches often treat visual inputs as homogeneous or auxiliary signals, failing to capture the intricate and sample-specific dependencies between text and images in mathematical problem-solving.

By Wanshi Xu, Haokun Zhao, Haidong Yuan, Songjun Cao, Long Ma