arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

The Reward Was in Your Data All Along: Correcting Flow Matching with Discriminator-Guided RL

arXiv:2606. 19162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Score- and flow-matching models often rely on preference-based reinforcement learning for two purposes: aligning with subjective preferences and, surprisingly, recovering properties such as visual realism and coherent object structure that matching-based training is intended to learn from the data itself.

By Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Felix Friedrich, Zhang Xiaofeng, Reyhane Askari-Hemmat, Xiaochuang Han, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal
arXiv AI
Aug 11

TrustRoboReward: Preference-Ordered Isotonic Score Editing for Multi-Paradigm Robot Reward Models

arXiv:2608. 08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a bottleneck for reinforcement learning in embodied AI.

By Yidong Wang, Yan Zhan, Ziteng Feng, Zhenyu Cui, Ziyi Zhou, Renzhao Liang, Jiaxuan Zhu, Zilei Yang, Yiran Zhao, Zhongkuan Mao, Bo Jia, Hanchu Ni, Chenggang Xie, Biao Liu, Yi Zhang, Yong Dai, Xiaozhu Ju, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models

WorldReward introduces a vision‑language model–based reward system for camera‑conditioned world models, combining action consistency and visual quality evaluation. It processes paired videos by splitting them into action‑aligned chunks, structuring visual evidence, and aggregating decisions through voting. The model is trained on a large, reasoning‑augmented preference dataset and outperforms GPT‑5.5 on a human‑annotated benchmark, improving both action execution and visual quality when applied to RL post‑training.

By Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang, Zhimin Li, Yujie Zhou, Jiazi Bu, Pengyang Ling, Feng Han, Zhixiong Zhang, Long Xing, Shengyuan Ding, Ziang Li, Cheng Jin, Yuhang Zang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianyu Pang