Better static judges do not guarantee better training signals for generative reward models.

In creative writing, Answer-Only rewarders often beat Thinking judges in online DPO even though Thinking judges have higher static accuracy.

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Angel Raychev · Nathan Lile · Rafael Rafailov

SynthLabs.ai · Stanford University · Thinking Machines

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The authors studied generative reward models (GenRMs) as online preference providers for policy optimization in creative writing.

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