- Don't Pass@k: A Bayesian Framework for Large Language Model Evaluation
Mohsen Hariri, Amirhossein Samandar, Michael Hinczewski, Vipin Chaudhary · Oct 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
Rubric Rating Automatic MetricsSimulation Env
We present a principled Bayesian evaluation framework that replaces Pass@k and average accuracy over N trials (avg@N) with posterior estimates of a model's underlying success probability and credible intervals, yielding stable rankings and…
- Elo-Evolve: A Co-evolutionary Framework for Language Model Alignment
Jing Zhao, Ting Zhen, Junwei Bao, Hongfei Jiang, Yang Song · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Current alignment methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on compressing vast amounts of human preference data into static, absolute reward functions, leading to data scarcity, noise sensitivity, and training instability.
- $V_1$: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
Harman Singh, Xiuyu Li, Kusha Sareen, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Sijun Tan · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
On code generation (LiveCodeBench, CodeContests, SWE-Bench) and math reasoning (AIME, HMMT) benchmarks, V_1-Infer improves Pass@1 by up to 10% over pointwise verification and outperforms recent test-time scaling methods while being…
- KLong: Training LLM Agent for Extremely Long-horizon Tasks
Yue Liu, Yingwei Ma, Yibo Miao, Yanhao Li, Yuchong Xie · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Rubric Rating
Then, we introduce Research-Factory, an automated pipeline that generates high-quality training data by collecting research papers and constructing evaluation rubrics.
- Think$^{2}$: Grounded Metacognitive Reasoning in Large Language Models
Abraham Paul Elenjical, Vivek Hruday Kavuri, Vasudeva Varma · Feb 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Human Eval
We introduce a psychologically grounded metacognitive framework that operationalizes Ann Brown's regulatory cycle (Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation) as a structured prompting architecture, and study its integration within a lightweight…
- DSPA: Dynamic SAE Steering for Data-Efficient Preference Alignment
James Wedgwood, Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab, Virginia Smith · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Preference alignment is usually achieved by weight-updating training on preference data, which adds substantial alignment-stage compute and provides limited mechanistic visibility.
- GIFT: Group-Relative Implicit Fine-Tuning Integrates GRPO with DPO and UNA
Zhichao Wang · Oct 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
This paper proposes Group-relative Implicit Fine-Tuning (GIFT), a reinforcement learning framework for aligning large language models (LLMs) that unifies on-policy optimization with implicit preference learning.
- Critique-GRPO: Advancing LLM Reasoning with Natural Language and Numerical Feedback
Xiaoying Zhang, Yipeng Zhang, Hao Sun, Kaituo Feng, Chaochao Lu · Jun 3, 2025 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit Automatic Metrics
We show that plateaued RL models can successfully refine failed solutions when given natural language critiques.
- SWE-Protégé: Learning to Selectively Collaborate With an Expert Unlocks Small Language Models as Software Engineering Agents
Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Archana Pradeep, Ang Chen, Alexander P. Ellis, Warren Hunt · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Our approach combines supervised fine-tuning on expert-augmented trajectories with agentic reinforcement learning that explicitly discourages degenerative looping and unproductive expert collaboration.
- PIKA: Expert-Level Synthetic Datasets for Post-Training Alignment from Scratch
Shangjian Yin, Shining Liang, Wenbiao Ding, Yuli Qian, Zhouxing Shi · Oct 8, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Despite its small size, fine-tuning Llama-3-8B-Base on PiKa-SFT even outperforms the official Llama-3-8B-Instruct model trained on over 10M proprietary examples on widely used benchmarks such as AlpacaEval 2.0 and Arena-Hard.
- Revisiting Self-Play Preference Optimization: On the Role of Prompt Difficulty
Yao Xiao, Jung-jae Kim, Roy Ka-wei Lee, Lidong Bing · Oct 7, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Self-play preference optimization has emerged as a prominent paradigm for aligning large language models (LLMs).
- Structurally Aligned Subtask-Level Memory for Software Engineering Agents
Kangning Shen, Jingyuan Zhang, Chenxi Sun, Wencong Zeng, Yang Yue · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as autonomous software engineering (SWE) agents.
- DeepPrune: Parallel Scaling without Inter-trace Redundancy
Shangqing Tu, Yaxuan Li, Yushi Bai, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li · Oct 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Our method features a specialized judge model trained with out-of-distribution data (AIME 2022, AIME 2023, and MATH 500) using oversampling techniques to accurately predict answer equivalence from partial reasoning traces, achieving 0.7072…
- Cross-Context Verification: Hierarchical Detection of Benchmark Contamination through Session-Isolated Analysis
Tae-Eun Song · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics
LLM coding benchmarks face a credibility crisis: widespread solution leakage and test quality issues undermine SWE-bench Verified, while existing detection methods--paraphrase consistency, n-gram overlap, perplexity analysis--never directly…
- TARo: Token-level Adaptive Routing for LLM Test-time Alignment
Arushi Rai, Qiang Zhang, Hanqing Zeng, Yunkai Zhang, Dipesh Tamboli · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Recent test-time alignment methods offer a lightweight alternative, but have been explored mainly for preference alignment rather than reasoning.
- Alignment through Meta-Weighted Online Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Data Generation and Preference Optimization
Junming Yang, Ning Xu, Biao Liu, Shiqi Qiao, Xin Geng · Sep 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
To bridge this gap, we propose Meta-Weighted Adaptive Preference Optimization (MetaAPO), a novel framework that dynamically couples data generation with model training.
- Towards Bridging the Reward-Generation Gap in Direct Alignment Algorithms
Zeguan Xiao, Yun Chen, Guanhua Chen, Ke Tang · Jun 11, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs), such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Simple Preference Optimization (SimPO), have emerged as efficient alternatives to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) algorithms for aligning…
- C2: Scalable Rubric-Augmented Reward Modeling from Binary Preferences
Akira Kawabata, Saku Sugawara · Apr 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Activation Steering for Aligned Open-ended Generation without Sacrificing Coherence
Niklas Herbster, Martin Zborowski, Alberto Tosato, Gauthier Gidel, Tommaso Tosato · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Mitigating Distribution Sharpening in Math RLVR via Distribution-Aligned Hint Synthesis and Backward Hint Annealing
Pei-Xi Xie, Che-Yu Lin, Cheng-Lin Yang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Squeeze Evolve: Unified Multi-Model Orchestration for Verifier-Free Evolution
Monishwaran Maheswaran, Leon Lakhani, Zhongzhu Zhou, Shijia Yang, Junxiong Wang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- SortedRL: Accelerating RL Training for LLMs through Online Length-Aware Scheduling
Yiqi Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Zhihe Yang, Chengruidong Zhang · Mar 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
- AdaRubric: Task-Adaptive Rubrics for LLM Agent Evaluation
Liang Ding · Mar 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
- FailureMem: A Failure-Aware Multimodal Framework for Autonomous Software Repair
Ruize Ma, Yilei Jiang, Shilin Zhang, Zheng Ma, Yi Feng · Mar 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Mediocrity is the key for LLM as a Judge Anchor Selection
Shachar Don-Yehiya, Asaf Yehudai, Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend · Mar 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- daVinci-Env: Open SWE Environment Synthesis at Scale
Dayuan Fu, Shenyu Wu, Yunze Wu, Zerui Peng, Yaxing Huang · Mar 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Michael Gastpar, Ashok Vardhan Makkuva · Mar 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
- PostTrainBench: Can LLM Agents Automate LLM Post-Training?
Ben Rank, Hardik Bhatnagar, Ameya Prabhu, Shira Eisenberg, Karina Nguyen · Mar 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Tool Verification for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
Ruotong Liao, Nikolai Röhrich, Xiaohan Wang, Yuhui Zhang, Yasaman Samadzadeh · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CHIMERA: Compact Synthetic Data for Generalizable LLM Reasoning
Xinyu Zhu, Yihao Feng, Yanchao Sun, Xianzhi Du, Pingzhi Li · Mar 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report
Ruisheng Cao, Mouxiang Chen, Jiawei Chen, Zeyu Cui, Yunlong Feng · Feb 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
- SWE-rebench V2: Language-Agnostic SWE Task Collection at Scale
Ibragim Badertdinov, Maksim Nekrashevich, Anton Shevtsov, Alexander Golubev · Feb 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Rethinking the Value of Agent-Generated Tests for LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents
Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi, Chao Peng, Xiaodong Gu · Feb 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents
Mahesh Ramesh, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Aswinkumar Ramkumar, Pavan Thodima, Aniket Rege · Jan 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TRIM: Hybrid Inference via Targeted Stepwise Routing in Multi-Step Reasoning Tasks
Vansh Kapoor, Aman Gupta, Hao Chen, Anurag Beniwal, Jing Huang · Jan 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Towards Self-Evolving Benchmarks: Synthesizing Agent Trajectories via Test-Time Exploration under Validate-by-Reproduce Paradigm
Dadi Guo, Tianyi Zhou, Dongrui Liu, Chen Qian, Qihan Ren · Oct 1, 2025 · Citations: 0
- MobileLLM-R1: Exploring the Limits of Sub-Billion Language Model Reasoners with Open Training Recipes
Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Zechun Liu, Chia-Jung Chang, Wei Wen · Sep 29, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Robert Lange, Jeff Clune · May 29, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Beyond Final Code: A Process-Oriented Error Analysis of Software Development Agents in Real-World GitHub Scenarios
Zhi Chen, Wei Ma, Lingxiao Jiang · Mar 16, 2025 · Citations: 0