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AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling

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arXiv:2601.08097 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Jan 2026 (v1), last revised 5 Jun 2026 (this version, v2)]

Title:AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling

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Abstract:Reward modeling is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences, yet predominant architectures rely on a static pooling strategy to condense sequences into scalar scores. This paradigm, however, suffers from two key limitations: a static inductive bias that misaligns with task-dependent preference signals, and a representational mismatch, as the backbone's optimization for generation leaves its representations ill-suited to fine-grained discrimination. To address this, we propose AdaJudge, a unified framework that jointly adapts representation and aggregation. AdaJudge first improves backbone representations into a discrimination-oriented space via gated refinement blocks. It then replaces the static readout with an adaptive multi-view pooling module, which dynamically routes and combines evidence. Extensive experiments on RM-Bench and JudgeBench show that AdaJudge outperforms strong off-the-shelf reward models and traditional pooling baselines.
Comments: ACL 2026
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2601.08097 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2601.08097v2 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.08097
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From: Mengnan Du [view email]
[v1] Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:37:38 UTC (310 KB)
[v2] Fri, 5 Jun 2026 06:45:40 UTC (399 KB)
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