Self-Rewarding Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning for Open-Ended Reasoning

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Hauptverfasser: Ye, Zhiling, Yue, Yun, Wang, Haowen, Han, Xudong, Jiang, Jiadi, Wei, Cheng, Fan, Lei, Liang, Jiaxin, Zhang, Shuowen, Li, Ji, Guo, Chunxiao, Wang, Jian, Wei, Peng, Gu, Jinjie
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author Ye, Zhiling
Yue, Yun
Wang, Haowen
Han, Xudong
Jiang, Jiadi
Wei, Cheng
Fan, Lei
Liang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Shuowen
Li, Ji
Guo, Chunxiao
Wang, Jian
Wei, Peng
Gu, Jinjie
author_facet Ye, Zhiling
Yue, Yun
Wang, Haowen
Han, Xudong
Jiang, Jiadi
Wei, Cheng
Fan, Lei
Liang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Shuowen
Li, Ji
Guo, Chunxiao
Wang, Jian
Wei, Peng
Gu, Jinjie
contents Open-ended evaluation is essential for deploying large language models in real-world settings. In studying HealthBench, we observe that using the model itself as a grader and generating rubric-based reward signals substantially improves reasoning performance. Remarkably, the trained model also becomes a stronger grader. Motivated by this, we introduce Self-Rewarding Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning for Open-Ended Reasoning, a lightweight framework that enables faster and more resource-efficient training while surpassing baselines. Remarkably, on Qwen3-32B, training with just the 4000-sample HealthBench Easy subset is sufficient to obtain a model that exceeds GPT-5 on HealthBench Hard. Incorporating a small amount of teacher-graded data further enhances performance for less capable models.
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spellingShingle Self-Rewarding Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning for Open-Ended Reasoning
Ye, Zhiling
Yue, Yun
Wang, Haowen
Han, Xudong
Jiang, Jiadi
Wei, Cheng
Fan, Lei
Liang, Jiaxin
Zhang, Shuowen
Li, Ji
Guo, Chunxiao
Wang, Jian
Wei, Peng
Gu, Jinjie
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Open-ended evaluation is essential for deploying large language models in real-world settings. In studying HealthBench, we observe that using the model itself as a grader and generating rubric-based reward signals substantially improves reasoning performance. Remarkably, the trained model also becomes a stronger grader. Motivated by this, we introduce Self-Rewarding Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning for Open-Ended Reasoning, a lightweight framework that enables faster and more resource-efficient training while surpassing baselines. Remarkably, on Qwen3-32B, training with just the 4000-sample HealthBench Easy subset is sufficient to obtain a model that exceeds GPT-5 on HealthBench Hard. Incorporating a small amount of teacher-graded data further enhances performance for less capable models.
title Self-Rewarding Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning for Open-Ended Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25534