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Yifu Huo

7 accepted papers

2026

GRAM-R²: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Major progress in reward modeling over recent years has been driven by a paradigm shift from task-specific designs to generalist reward models. Despite this trend, developing effective reward models remains a fundamental challenge: the heavy reliance on large-scale labeled preference data. Pre-train

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2026

MSRL: Scaling Generative Multimodal Reward Modeling via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in multimodal reward modeling have been largely driven by a paradigm shift from discriminative to generative approaches. Building on this progress, recent studies have further employed reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to enhance multimodal reward models (MRMs). D

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2026

Probing Preference Representations: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis Method for Reward Models

AAAI 2026technical

Previous methods evaluate reward models by testing them on a fixed pairwise ranking test set, but they typically do not provide performance information on each preference dimension. In this work, we address the evaluation challenge of reward models by probing preference representations. To confirm t

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2025

GRAM: A Generative Foundation Reward Model for Reward Generalization

ICML 2025poster

In aligning large language models (LLMs), reward models have played an important role, but are standardly trained as discriminative models and rely only on labeled human preference data. In this paper, we explore methods that train reward models using both unlabeled and labeled data. Building on t…

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2025

HEAL: A Hypothesis-Based Preference-Aware Analysis Framework

EMNLP 2025

Preference optimization methods like DPO have achieved remarkable performance in LLM alignment. However, the evaluation for these methods relies on a single response and overlooks other potential outputs, which could also be generated in real-world applications within this hypothetical space. To add

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2025

RoVRM: A Robust Visual Reward Model Optimized via Auxiliary Textual Preference Data

AAAI 2025technical

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often fail to align with human preferences, leading to issues like generating misleading content without proper visual context (also known as hallucination). A promising solution to this problem is using human-preference alignment techniques, such as best-of-n sa…

2024

ESRL: Efficient Sampling-Based Reinforcement Learning for Sequence Generation

AAAI 2024technical

Applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to sequence generation models enables the direct optimization of long-term rewards (e.g., BLEU and human feedback), but typically requires large-scale sampling over a space of action sequences. This is a computational challenge as presented by the practice of seq…