Item response modeling improves rubric rewards while cutting judge requests

Rubric Response Theory estimates response quality from criterion verdict patterns and adaptively selects the most informative criteria.

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Milad Yazdani · Yaser Souri · Xiren Zhou · Pranit Chawla · Dena Shahriari · Subhojit Som · +1 more

University of British Columbia · Microsoft

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The authors replace point-based rubric aggregation with a two-parameter item response model that learns each criterion’s difficulty and ability to distinguish response quality.

The authors developed Rubric Response Theory (RRT), which treats binary rubric verdicts as evidence about a response’s latent quality.

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From Microsoft and University of British Columbia

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Rubric Response Theory aggregates rubric criteria using item response theory to improve reinforcement learning rewards over additive methods.

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