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Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards

We've developed and applied a new method leveraging Rule-Based Rewards (RBRs) that aligns models to behave safely without extensive human data collection.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

From Accuracy to Robustness: A Study of Rule- and Model-based Verifiers in Mathematical Reasoning

The paper investigates the reliability of rule- and model-based verifiers used in reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) for mathematical reasoning. It finds that rule-based verifiers often miss equivalent answers in different formats, causing false negatives that degrade RL performance as models improve. Model-based verifiers achieve higher static accuracy but become vulnerable to reward hacking during RL, misclassifying certain response patterns as correct after fine-tuning.

By Yuzhen Huang, Weihao Zeng, Xingshan Zeng, Qi Zhu, Junxian He