Adversarial rubric repair improves self-training on open-ended expert tasks

RRI tests model-written grading rubrics against deliberately unhelpful answers, repairs exploitable criteria, and then uses the revised rewards for reinforcement learning.

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Wei Dai · Qianchu Liu · Guanghui Qin · Xing Han · Tristan Naumann · Paul Pu Liang · +1 more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Microsoft Research · Johns Hopkins University

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The authors built a proposer-solver loop in which a model generates an open-ended task and a weighted rubric.

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From Microsoft Research and 2 others · Part of Open-Ended RL Reward Design, now 12 papers

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A reward hacking adversary supervises and repairs model-written rubrics, improving self-improvement on open-ended tasks.

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