From the Inside Out: Progressive Distribution Refinement for Confidence Calibration

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Autori principali: Yang, Xizhong, Xia, Yinan, Wang, Huiming, Song, Mofei
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Yang, Xizhong
Xia, Yinan
Wang, Huiming
Song, Mofei
author_facet Yang, Xizhong
Xia, Yinan
Wang, Huiming
Song, Mofei
contents Leveraging the model's internal information as the self-reward signal in Reinforcement Learning (RL) has received extensive attention due to its label-free nature. While prior works have made significant progress in applying the Test-Time Scaling (TTS) strategies to RL, the discrepancy in internal information between test and training remains inadequately addressed. Moreover, Test-Time Training based on voting-based TTS strategies often suffers from reward hacking problems. To address these issues, we propose DistriTTRL, which leverages the distribution prior of the model's confidence during RL to progressively optimize the reward signal, rather than relying solely on single-query rollouts. Additionally, we mitigate the phenomenon of consistent reward hacking caused by the voting-based TTS strategies through diversity-targeted penalties. Benefiting from this training mechanism where model capability and self-reward signals complement each other, and the mitigation of reward hacking, DistriTTRL has achieved significant performance improvements across multiple models and benchmarks.
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spellingShingle From the Inside Out: Progressive Distribution Refinement for Confidence Calibration
Yang, Xizhong
Xia, Yinan
Wang, Huiming
Song, Mofei
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Leveraging the model's internal information as the self-reward signal in Reinforcement Learning (RL) has received extensive attention due to its label-free nature. While prior works have made significant progress in applying the Test-Time Scaling (TTS) strategies to RL, the discrepancy in internal information between test and training remains inadequately addressed. Moreover, Test-Time Training based on voting-based TTS strategies often suffers from reward hacking problems. To address these issues, we propose DistriTTRL, which leverages the distribution prior of the model's confidence during RL to progressively optimize the reward signal, rather than relying solely on single-query rollouts. Additionally, we mitigate the phenomenon of consistent reward hacking caused by the voting-based TTS strategies through diversity-targeted penalties. Benefiting from this training mechanism where model capability and self-reward signals complement each other, and the mitigation of reward hacking, DistriTTRL has achieved significant performance improvements across multiple models and benchmarks.
title From the Inside Out: Progressive Distribution Refinement for Confidence Calibration
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16500