A dynamic position reward in RL training improves tagging performance and prevents overfitting to Selector outputs¶

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q2 i? SRJudge with position rewards consistently outperforms one without position rewards, and dynamic adjustment across positions and training steps yields additional improvements over a static position reward. → Zhiwei Yang 2026

Evidence¶

Zhiwei Yang 2026¶

Zhiwei Yang, Jiahua Yang, Huiru Lin, Xing Chen, and Quanlong Guan. (2026). SRJudge: Empowering Large Language Models with Selective Reasoning for Fine-Grained Knowledge Concept Tagging. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36982 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.36982

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Ablation on position reward strategies (Table 5) comparing no reward, a static reward (R position = 3), and the dynamic reward of Equation (5). Dynamic yields the highest F1 (e.g., 0.7491 on S Math vs 0.7372 without). The article says the dynamic reward "helps sustain active exploration and improve RL efficiency" as training progresses.

"SRJudge with position rewards consistently outperforms one without position rewards, which shows that introducing position rewards to the LLM Reasoner can prevent it from overfitting to the Selector's outputs."

Discussion¶

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