Rubrics on Trial: Evolving Rubrics from a Single Query via Synthetic Pairwise Evidence
Rubrics provide structured, fine-grained signals for training and evaluating large language models (LLMs). Yet reliable query-specific rubrics are difficult to construct. Existing approaches often derive supervision from human-written rubrics, preference data, or sampled responses. Direct query-to-rubric generation avoids these resources, but provides no explicit check that a plausible rubric is useful. Such a rubric may fail to distinguish answer quality, reward an optional style, or penalize a valid alternative strategy. We introduce Rubrics on Trial, a query-only framework that evolves a rubric set from an empty set without external annotations or model training. It derives supervision solely from synthetic rubric-conditioned response pairs and validates each proposed rubric before adding it, screening out non-discriminative, over-specific, and style-only candidate rubrics. Experiments across five preference benchmark suites demonstrate the effectiveness of Rubrics on Trial, which achieves the best average accuracy and leads on six of seven evaluation sets.
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