Judging the Judges: Confidence and Disagreement in Rubrics as Rewards
arXiv:2610.21179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rubrics as Rewards (RaR) extends reinforcement learning to non-verifiable domains by using an LLM judge to score responses against a structured rubric. Prior work has focused on improving the rubric or strengthening the single judge, with comparatively little attention to how different single or multiple judges might be used during RaR training. We first show that judge identity alone produces a substantial spread in scores when training Qwen3-4…