Reward models trained from pairwise preferences often exploit superficial shortcut cues rather than learning true response quality. We propose DynaCF, a dynamic reweighting framework for mitigating shortcut learning in reward model training.
arXiv:2607. 24484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies what discriminatively trained reward models (RMs) memorize by measuring counterfactual memorization on two human preference datasets.
By Ivo Verhoeven, Pushkar Mishra, Ekaterina Shutova
This paper studies what discriminatively trained reward models (RMs) memorize by measuring counterfactual memorization on two human preference datasets. We show that RMs 1) misallocate memorization to easy, high margin preference pairs, 2) memorize dataset-specific shortcuts (e.
arXiv:2509. 22851v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Margin-based optimization is fundamental to improving generalization and robustness in classification tasks.
By Yaswanth Chittepu, Prasann Singhal, Greg Durrett, Scott Niekum
arXiv:2603. 03291v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward Models (RMs) are crucial for online alignment of language models (LMs) with human preferences.
By Daniel Fein, Max Lamparth, Violet Xiang, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Nick Haber
arXiv:2604. 18239v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference optimization is widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences.
By Wei Chen, Yubing Wu, Junmei Yang, Delu Zeng, Qibin Zhao, John Paisley, Min Chen, Zhou Wang
arXiv:2606. 04284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Preference modeling plays a central role in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), enabling large language models (LLMs) to align with human values.
By Yifan Wang, Jinyi Mu, Mayank Jobanputra, Yu Wang, Ji-Ung Lee, Soyoung Oh, Isabel Valera, Vera Demberg
arXiv:2506. 13702v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-trajectory preference optimization methods learn from datasets of ((prompt, response, reward)) tuples, offering a practical alternative to pairwise preference learning by directly leveraging scalar feedback.
By Bilal Faye, Hanane Azzag, Mustapha Lebbah
arXiv:2607. 16240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) such as DPO have become a common way to post-train and align LLMs with human preferences.
By Shawn Im, Federico Danieli, Skyler Seto, Barry-John Theobald, Katherine Metcalf
arXiv:2606. 09124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has enabled progress on reasoning-intensive tasks by relying on task-specific verifiers that provide automated correctness signals.
By Suhwan Kim, Taehyun Cho, Geon-Hyeong Kim, Yu Jin Kim, Youngsoo Jang, Moontae Lee, Jungwoo Lee
arXiv:2510. 05342v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a simple and effective method for aligning large language models.
By Hyung Gyu Rho
arXiv:2410. 15595v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), aligning policy models with human preferences has become increasingly critical.
By Wenyi Xiao, Zechuan Wang, Leilei Gan, Shuai Zhao, Zongrui Li, Ruirui Lei, Wanggui He, Luu Anh Tuan, Long Chen, Hao Jiang, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu