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Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation

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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.

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