arXiv Computer Vision

When Pairwise Preferences Cycle: A Reliability-Anchored Preference Walk for Video GRPO

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Aligning Human Sense: Calibrated Distributional Reward Learning for Video Generation

arXiv:2608.21425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation is central to AI-powered content creation. Aligning generated videos with human preferences is a key criterion for evaluating genera...

By Nai-Xin Zhai, Weihua Cheng, Dexu Yu, Yikai Gu, Hanwen Du, Junchen Fu, Chenxi Huang, Yingwei Song, Liyuan Lillian Ma, Yang Ran, Youhua Li, Yongxin Ni
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Step Back to Move Forward: Reflection-Aware Preference Optimization for Visual Generation

The paper introduces Reflection-Aware GRPO (RA‑GRPO), a reinforcement‑learning framework that aligns diffusion generative models with human preferences. It uses Diffusion Reflection to correct intermediate sampling paths by reversing the diffusion process, and Counterfactual Path Synthesis to embed these corrected trajectories into the policy, avoiding extra inference cost. Experiments on text‑to‑image and text‑to‑video models show RA‑GRPO outperforms existing methods, reducing reward hacking and improving generalization while remaining architecture‑agnostic.

By Junlong Wu, Jiuzhou Lin, Jia Sun, Boheng Zhang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Houde Liu, Qianqian Gan, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Beyond Pairwise Feedback: Listwise Vision-Language Supervision for Preference-Based Reward Learning

The paper introduces a novel framework that combines vision‑language model (VLM) generated preferences with the Plackett‑Luce (PL) ranking model for reward learning in reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional pairwise Bradley‑Terry approaches, the PL formulation allows listwise rankings of multiple candidates, enabling the use of different ranking sizes (K = 3, 4, 5). Experiments on Meta‑World manipulation tasks show that PL‑based reward models train robotic policies as effectively as, or better than, pairwise, K‑wise, and RL‑VLM‑F baselines, achieving up to an 86% mean final success rate and matching the Oracle baseline on the Drawer Open task.

By Srivalli Katkuri, Maxwell Kawada, Juan Wachs
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

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 AI
Oct 7

Beyond Scalar IoU: Structured Verification from Rollout Groups for Video Temporal Grounding

The paper introduces SUTURE, a structured verification method for video temporal grounding that leverages the joint structure of rollout groups rather than scoring each rollout independently. SUTURE conditions verification on the entire rollout group, using disagreement across rollouts to reweight targets and coverage at each position to redistribute reward mass. Experiments on five benchmarks show that SUTURE consistently improves grounding performance across all IoU thresholds and reduces video-start anchoring in reasoning traces, indicating that the joint structure of a rollout group can provide a more informative temporal verifier.

By Youngjae Cho, Won Young Jhoo, Jongsuk Kim