@inproceedings{ahrabian-etal-2025-systematic, title = "A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling", author = "Ahrabian, Kian and Jandaghi, Pegah and Mokhberian, Negar and Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth and Pujara, Jay", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.8/", pages = "146--164", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6" }