Experiments show that the proposed Trait-Aware Policy Optimization method consistently improves multi-trait scoring performance over supervised fine-tuning and scalar-reward optimization baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness and transferability of trait-aware post-training for essay scoring.
Zhengyang Wang, Sanwoo Lee, Jiaxin Wang et al.· arXiv.org· 2 citations
HiFTS is proposed, a unified autoregressive framework that generates hierarchical CoT feedback before predicting trait-level and holistic scores and applies Group Relative Policy Optimization with a composite reward balancing score agreement, calibration, feedback quality, and structural validity.
Shi-Hang Yang, Sanwoo Lee, Ning-Ning Zhao et al.· 1 citation
LatentRM is a reward modeling framework that learns intermediate reasoning traces as discrete latent variables to explicitly maximize the likelihood of downstream scalar rewards through on-policy optimization of the latent reasoning space end-to-end.