Junyi Zhou
2026
RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards
Junyi Zhou | Qiyuan Zhang | Yufei Wang | Fuyuan Lyu | Yidong Ming | Can Xu | Qingfeng Sun | Kai Zheng | Peng Kang | Xue Liu | Chen Ma
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Junyi Zhou | Qiyuan Zhang | Yufei Wang | Fuyuan Lyu | Yidong Ming | Can Xu | Qingfeng Sun | Kai Zheng | Peng Kang | Xue Liu | Chen Ma
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
As Large Language Model (LLM) alignment evolves from simple completions to complex, highly sophisticated generation, Reward Models are increasingly shifting toward rubric-guided evaluation to mitigate surface-level biases. However, the community lacks a unified benchmark to assess this evaluation paradigm, as existing benchmarks lack both the discriminative complexity and the ground-truth rubric annotations required for rigorous analysis. To bridge this gap, we introduce RubricBench, a curated benchmark with 1,147 pairwise comparisons specifically designed to assess the reliability of rubric-based evaluation. Our construction employs a multi-dimensional filtration pipeline to target hard samples featuring nuanced input complexity and misleading surface bias, augmenting each with expert-annotated, atomic rubrics derived strictly from instructions. Comprehensive experiments reveal a substantial capability gap between human-annotated and model-generated rubrics, indicating that even state-of-the-art models struggle to autonomously specify valid evaluation criteria, lagging considerably behind human-guided performance.