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arXiv Computation and Language By Xin Guan, Xiaomeng Hu, Shen Huang, Zhenyi Wang, Bo Zhang, Zijian Li, Pengjun Xie, Bo Liu, Jiuxin Cao

EvoRubric: Self-Evolving Rubric-Driven RL for Open-Ended Generation

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EvoRubric introduces a co‑evolutionary reinforcement learning framework that learns rubric‑driven evaluation criteria for open‑ended text generation. The system uses a shared policy that simultaneously generates responses and rubrics, while a frozen meta‑verifier and grader provide validity checks and scoring. Experiments on medical, writing, and science benchmarks show that EvoRubric outperforms static and other evolving‑rubric baselines, achieving higher average scores on five tasks.

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