Mistral-7B reward model outperforms GPT2-XL on Hit@k ranking and Pairwise Accuracy for proxy preference discrimination, at higher computational cost¶
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q2 i? Mistral-7B achieves higher Hit@k than GPT2-XL (Hit@1 about 4.5% higher) and maintains about 5.4% higher Pairwise Accuracy after roughly 350 steps, while GPT2-XL remains useful in resource-constrained settings. → Zhenxin Zhang 2026
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Zhenxin Zhang 2026¶
Zhenxin Zhang, Ziyu Ding, Mengyun Liu and Haiwei Sang. (2026). RACES: reward-aligned consistent essay scoring with large language models. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-026-00607-8
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Comparative numerical analysis of two reward models (Figs. 3–4) on essay scoring and proxy response discrimination; both converged rapidly, reaching 73.9% and 63.1% Pairwise Accuracy within about 50 training steps. The article frames this as "a trade-off between reward-model accuracy and computational efficiency".
"Mistral-7B achieves higher Hit@k performance than GPT2-XL, with its Hit@1 score approximately 4.5% higher. This difference may be attributed to the stronger contextual representation capacity of Mistral-7B"
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- RACES configurations improve QWK essay-scoring agreement over evaluated pretrained baselines on ASAP 2.0, with LLaMA2-7B-based configurations slightly outperforming Qwen2.5-Instruct-7B-based ones — related
- Both reward models converge rapidly, reaching stable Hit@k performance around 200–250 training steps and above-baseline Hit@3 within about 50 steps — related
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Mistral-7B reward model outperforms GPT2-XL on Hit@k ranking and Pairwise Accuracy for proxy preference discrimination, at higher computational cost |
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Mistral-7B reward model outperforms GPT2-XL on Hit@k ranking and Pairwise Accuracy for proxy preference discrimination, at higher computational cost |
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