arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
CriPO: Enhancing Rubric-based RL via Self-Distillation
arXiv:2607. 18082v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rubric-based RL has recently shown promise in improving LLMs on open-ended tasks.
Enhancing Rubric-based RL via Self-Distillation
arXiv:2607. 18082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rubric-based RL has recently shown promise in improving LLMs on open-ended tasks.
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arXiv AI
Aug 11
RISE-RL: Rubric-Informed Selective Exploration for Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608. 09123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) for open-ended tasks is challenging because responses must satisfy multidimensional criteria without following a single correct generation trajectory.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Rubrics as Privileged Information for Open-Ended Generation
arXiv:2608. 02948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD), where a single model acts as both student and teacher with different contexts, has shown promise in verifiable domains like math, where hard privileged information (PI) in the form of ground-truth answers structurally constrains valid continuations.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
LLM-as-a-Tutor: Policy-Aware Prompt Adaptation for Non-Verifiable RL
arXiv:2607. 04412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for non-verifiable instruction following increasingly relies on LLM judges with prompt-specific rubrics as reward signals.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Verifier-Induced Support Reshaping in On-Policy Optimization
arXiv:2608. 00220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that on-policy reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can improve the current objective while making successful behaviors for later objectives too rare to sample and reinforce.
arXiv AI
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Rubric Dropout: A Simple Way to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Rubric-as-Reward RL
arXiv:2608. 11669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation
arXiv:2606. 19327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training of reasoning language models is commonly driven by supervised distillation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
CAST: Non-Privileged Clipped Asymmetric Self-Teaching with Advantage Flipping for GRPO
arXiv:2606. 00172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), especially Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has been widely used to improve reasoning in large language models.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17
Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation
Post-training of reasoning language models is commonly driven by supervised distillation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. Distillation often relies on chain-of-thought annotations that are expensive to obtain and may themselves be noisy, incomplete, or partially incorrect; even when the final solution is correct, an imperfect rationale can interfere with learning.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17
Learning from Your Own Mistakes: Constructing Learnable Micro-Reflective Trajectories for Self-Distillation
Self-distillation improves reasoning in large language models by using the model's own rollouts as training signal, typically through implicit logit-level alignment that minimizes KL divergence toward a privileged target distribution. However, because this supervision is generated via uncontrolled sampling, it provides no diagnostic insight into the model's specific errors or corrective guidance for its individual failure patterns.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18
Learning from Your Own Mistakes: Constructing Learnable Micro-Reflective Trajectories for Self-Distillation
arXiv:2606. 18844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation improves reasoning in large language models by using the model's own rollouts as training signal, typically through implicit logit-level alignment that minimizes KL divergence toward a privileged target distribution.
arXiv AI
Aug 6
Privileged, but Biased: How PI-Conditioned Teachers Break Self-Distillation
arXiv:2608. 04794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation (SD) has emerged as a compute-efficient alternative to reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards: a self-teacher, conditioned on privileged information (PI) about the answer such as a reference solution, supplies dense per-token supervision to a student that never sees it.