Protocol-Level Rewards Reduce Rubric Gaming in Clinical Language Models

Requiring related criteria to pass together improved clinical appropriateness without reducing checklist coverage.

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Maoqi Liu · Junwei He · Bowen Zhang · Feiran Li · Wentao Ma · Rongyi Lin · +2 more

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · ByteDance

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The authors studied Rubric-RL, where an LLM judge evaluates separate checklist criteria and combines the verdicts into a training reward.

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ProRubric groups rubric criteria into conjunctive protocol-level dimensions to prevent reward hacking from additive aggregation.

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