Reinforcement learning with a learned alignment reward substantially improves question-concept alignment after supervised fine-tuning, while answerability remains high throughout training¶

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q2 i? On the Application Module ablation, the Alignment RL phase further improves concept alignment substantially beyond SFT Warmup, and answerability stays high across all training stages. → Xinyi Gao 2026

Evidence¶

Xinyi Gao 2026¶

Xinyi Gao, Qiucheng Wu, Lu Ding, Q. Vera Liao, Kaizhi Qian, Ying Xu, Shiyu Chang, Yang Zhang. (2026). KT4EQG: Personalized Exercise Question Generation via Knowledge Tracing. Preprint. Under review. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23933 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.23933

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Ablation on the XES3G5M Application Module evaluating questions generated for truncated histories without multi-round practice; the authors report that "Alignment RL then further improves concept alignment substantially" and that NLL increases moderately while remaining fluent.

"Alignment RL then further improves concept alignment substantially, demonstrating the effectiveness of reinforcement learning with learned alignment reward. The NLL under the base model increases moderately after training"

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