Wangyan
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2026
F2DR: A Fine-Grained Full-Pipeline Reward Framework for DeepSearch Workflows
Bojian Xiong | Wentao Ding | Yujing Lu | Shaowei Zhang | Ling Shi | Jing Liao | Yan Wang | Yueyang Zhang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Daiting Shi | Jingzhou HE | Yuqi Ren | Deyi Xiong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Bojian Xiong | Wentao Ding | Yujing Lu | Shaowei Zhang | Ling Shi | Jing Liao | Yan Wang | Yueyang Zhang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Daiting Shi | Jingzhou HE | Yuqi Ren | Deyi Xiong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
With the widespread industrial deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), DeepSearch has emerged as the dominant paradigm for resolving complex user queries. It implements an iterative closed-loop workflow consisting of planning and reflection, information retrieval, and answer generation. However, existing reward models (RMs) are largely designed for static single-turn tasks, failing to capture the full-pipeline complexity of DeepSearch workflows. To address this limitation, we propose F2DR, a fine-grained full-pipeline reward framework. F2DR evaluates DeepSearch workflows across three dimensions: Content, Trajectory, and Answer, enabling comprehensive process-level assessment. We further construct DeepSearch RM-Bench, a dedicated benchmark for evaluating RMs in DeepSearch scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that F2DR achieves significantly higher evaluation consistency than existing baselines, while DeepSearch RM-Bench exhibits strong discriminative capability across existing open-source RMs. We will publicly release the complete DeepSearch RM-Bench dataset.
ConsistRM: Improving Generative Reward Models via Consistency-Aware Self-Training
Yu Liang | Liangxin Liu | Longzheng Wang | Wangyan | Zhang Yueyang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Daiting Shi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yu Liang | Liangxin Liu | Longzheng Wang | Wangyan | Zhang Yueyang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Daiting Shi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Generative reward models (GRMs) have emerged as a promising approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences by offering greater representational capacity and flexibility than traditional scalar reward models. However, GRMs face two major challenges: reliance on costly human-annotated data restricts scalability, and self-training approaches often suffer from instability and vulnerability to reward hacking. To address these issues, we propose ConsistRM, a self-training framework that enables effective and stable GRM training without human annotations. ConsistRM incorporates the Consistency-Aware Answer Reward, which produces reliable pseudo-labels with temporal consistency, thereby providing more stable model optimization. Moreover, the Consistency-Aware Critique Reward is introduced to assess semantic consistency across multiple critiques and allocates fine-grained and differentiated rewards. Experiments on five benchmark datasets across four base models demonstrate that ConsistRM outperforms vanilla Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) by an average of 1.5%. Further analysis shows that ConsistRM enhances output consistency and mitigates position bias caused by input order, highlighting the effectiveness of consistency-aware rewards in improving GRMs.Our implementation is available at https://github.com/yuliangCarmelo/ConsistRM.
ReflectRM: Boosting Generative Reward Models via Self-Reflection within a Unified Judgment Framework
Kai Qin | Liangxin Liu | Yu Liang | Longzheng Wang | Wangyan | Zhang Yueyang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Houde Liu | Daiting Shi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Kai Qin | Liangxin Liu | Yu Liang | Longzheng Wang | Wangyan | Zhang Yueyang | Long Xia | Zhiyuan Sun | Houde Liu | Daiting Shi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Reward Models (RMs) are critical components in the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) pipeline, directly determining the alignment quality of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recently, Generative Reward Models (GRMs) have emerged as a superior paradigm, offering higher interpretability and stronger generalization than traditional scalar RMs. However, existing methods for GRMs focus primarily on outcome-level supervision, neglecting analytical process quality, which constrains their potential. To address this, we propose ReflectRM, a novel GRM that leverages self-reflection to assess analytical quality and enhance preference modeling. ReflectRM is trained under a unified generative framework for joint modeling of response preference and analysis preference. During inference, we use its self-reflection capability to identify the most reliable analysis, from which the final preference prediction is derived. Experiments across four benchmarks show that ReflectRM consistently improves performance, achieving an average accuracy gain of +3.7 on Qwen3-4B. Further experiments confirm that response preference and analysis preference are mutually reinforcing. Notably, ReflectRM substantially mitigates positional bias, yielding +10.2 improvement compared with leading GRMs and establishing itself as a more stable evaluator. Our code is available at https://github.com/yuliangCarmelo/ReflectRM.