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Designing effective reward functions is crucial to training reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. However, this design is non-trivial, even for domain experts, due to the subjective nature of certain tasks that are hard to quantify…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Rishi Hazra , Alkis Sygkounas , Andreas Persson , Amy Loutfi , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires

Reward engineering has long been a challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) research, as it often requires extensive human effort and iterative processes of trial-and-error to design effective reward functions. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yufei Wang , Zhanyi Sun , Jesse Zhang , Zhou Xian , Erdem Biyik , David Held , Zackory Erickson

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) plays a pivotal role in industrial manufacturing. Orthographic projection reasoning underpins the entire CAD workflow, encompassing design, manufacturing, and simulation. However, prevailing deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ke Niu , Zhuofan Chen , Haiyang Yu , Yuwen Chen , Teng Fu , Mengyang Zhao , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Reward Models (RMs) are critical for improving generation models via Reinforcement Learning (RL), yet the RM scaling paradigm in visual generation remains largely unexplored. It primarily due to fundamental limitations in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jie Wu , Yu Gao , Zilyu Ye , Ming Li , Liang Li , Hanzhong Guo , Jie Liu , Zeyue Xue , Xiaoxia Hou , Wei Liu , Yan Zeng , Weilin Huang

A model is proposed for the creation and transmission of scientific knowledge, based on the network of citations among research articles. The model allows to assign to each article a nonnegative value for its creativity, i. e. its creation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose M. Soler

Machine-learning excels in many areas with well-defined goals. However, a clear goal is usually not available in art forms, such as photography. The success of a photograph is measured by its aesthetic value, a very subjective concept. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Hui Fang , Meng Zhang

Promoting creativity is considered an important goal of education, but creativity is notoriously hard to measure.In this paper, we make the journey fromdefining a formal measure of creativity that is efficientlycomputable to applying the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Anastasia Kovalkov , Benjamin Paaßen , Avi Segal , Niels Pinkwart , Kobi Gal

The creative design process involves transforming abstract goals into concrete outcomes through a series of decisions made under constraints. While such processes are commonly shaped by feedback like rewards, their impact on design decision…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Surabhi S Nath , Vindula Jayawardana , Monica Van , Matt Klenk , Shabnam Hakimi

Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insights that connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mete Ismayilzada , Renqing Cuomao , Daniil Yurshevich , Anna Sotnikova , Lonneke van der Plas , Antoine Bosselut

Characterizing creativity in visualization design can lead to the design of more expressive representations and visualization authoring tools that prioritize human creativity. In this paper, we examine how creativity manifests itself in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianwei Ma , Zinat Ara , Safwat Ali Khan , Fanny Chevalier , Niklas Elmqvist , Naimul Hoque

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing image editing and text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, current reward models, which act as critics during RL, often suffer from hallucinations and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Peiyuan Zhang , Junming Lin , Tianhao Liang , Yuchen Duan , Shengyuan Ding , Changyao Tian , Yuhang Zang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

Reward models are widely used as proxies for human preferences when aligning or evaluating LLMs. However, reward models are black boxes, and it is often unclear what, exactly, they are actually rewarding. In this paper we develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 David Reber , Sean Richardson , Todd Nief , Cristina Garbacea , Victor Veitch

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how organizations create value and evaluate talent. While large language models enhance baseline output quality, they simultaneously introduce ambiguity in assessing human creativity, as observable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yigal Rosen , Ilia Rushkin

Language-modeling--based approaches to story plot generation attempt to construct a plot by sampling from a language model (LM) to predict the next character, word, or sentence to add to the story. LM techniques lack the ability to receive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Pradyumna Tambwekar , Murtaza Dhuliawala , Lara J. Martin , Animesh Mehta , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

Although capable of generating creative text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are poor judges of what constitutes "creativity". In this work, we show that we can leverage this knowledge of how to write creatively in order to better judge what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Matthew Lyle Olson , Neale Ratzlaff , Musashi Hinck , Shao-yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal

In this paper, we introduce OneReward, a unified reinforcement learning framework that enhances the model's generative capabilities across multiple tasks under different evaluation criteria using only \textit{One Reward} model. By employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Gong , Xionghui Wang , Jie Wu , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu

Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, especially in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, current reward models mainly produce scalar scores and struggle to…

We introduce LLaVA-Reward, an efficient reward model designed to automatically evaluate text-to-image (T2I) generations across multiple perspectives, leveraging pretrained multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Existing MLLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shijie Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Huaisheng Zhu , Branislav Kveton , Yufan Zhou , Jiuxiang Gu , Jian Chen , Changyou Chen

Reward modeling in large language models is susceptible to reward hacking, causing models to latch onto superficial features such as the tendency to generate lists or unnecessarily long responses. In reinforcement learning from human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Taneesh Gupta , Shivam Shandilya , Xuchao Zhang , Rahul Madhavan , Supriyo Ghosh , Chetan Bansal , Huaxiu Yao , Saravan Rajmohan

Current mainstream methods of aligning diffusion models with human preferences typically employ VLM-based reward models. However, these reward models, pre-trained for semantic alignment, struggle to capture the essential perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jaxon Zhang , Binxin Yang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Jing Lyu