arXiv:2607.26873cs.CL2026-07

让语言模型自动生成评分标准并自我优化,实现开放生成任务的推理时进化。

SERPO: Self-Evolving Rubric Policy Optimization for Open-Ended Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

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  • 构建三重演化闭环:响应证据、评分标准与策略参数协同进化。
  • 在多个基准上提升性能最高达20.63分,宏平均提升8.06分。
  • 适合需要持续优化的开放生成场景,如科研问答与健康咨询。

测试时强化学习(TTRL)使语言模型在推理阶段无需标注反馈即可自我演化。现有方法依赖答案投票,难以推广至开放生成任务,因有效响应无法映射到统一标准答案。缺乏外部奖励模型或强判别器时,需从模型自身输出构建可靠奖励信号。本文提出SERPO(自演化评分政策优化),以封闭回路替代答案投票,同步演化响应证据、查询特定评分标准与策略参数。通过好-中-差(G-N-B)响应演化将最大分离的采样结果归入有序档案;评分标准演化保留能区分这些档案的判别准则;概率准则评分将判别标记的似然转换为奖励信号;策略演化则基于此信号优化智能体。新策略采样结果更新档案与标准,完成三者协同演化闭环。在两种模型配置、两个领域内基准和四个域外基准上,SERPO相较基线模型在HealthBench和ResearchQA上分别提升最高20.63和20.31分,六基准宏平均提升最高8.06分,并支持域外迁移与跨基准持续演化。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) enables language models to self-evolve at inference time without labeled feedback. Existing methods rely on answer voting and therefore do not extend naturally to open-ended generation, where valid responses cannot be mapped to a shared canonical answer. Without external reward models or stronger judges, adaptation must instead construct reliable rewards from the model's own outputs. We introduce SERPO (Self-Evolving Rubric Policy Optimization), which replaces answer voting with a closed loop that co-evolves response evidence, query-specific rubrics, and policy parameters. Good-Normal-Bad (G-N-B) response evolution organizes maximally separated rollouts into ordered archives; rubric evolution retains criteria that discriminate these archives; probabilistic criterion scoring converts verdict-token likelihoods into reward signals; and policy evolution optimizes the actor with the resulting signals. New actor rollouts then refresh both the archives and rubrics, closing the three-way evolution loop. Across two model configurations, two in-domain benchmarks, and four OOD benchmarks, SERPO improves HealthBench and ResearchQA by up to 20.63 and 20.31 points over the corresponding base models, raises the six-benchmark macro-average by up to 8.06 points, and supports OOD transfer and continued cross-benchmark evolution.

强化学习开放生成自演化评分标准

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