RELIC: Enhancing Reward Model Generalization for Low-Resource Indic Languages with Few-Shot Examples (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Vaibhav Singh, Akash Ghosh, Soumyabrata Pal, Subhadip Baidya, Sriparna Saha, Dinesh Manocha
| Challenge: | a new reward model for low-resource Indic languages is proposed . a preference-based training approach is prohibitively expensive, authors say . |
| Approach: | a new in-context learning framework is proposed to train a retriever to select in-constext examples from low-resource Indic languages. |
| Outcome: | a new in-context learning framework for reward modeling in low-resource Indic languages is developed . the proposed framework outperforms existing examples on three preference datasets . |
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