Papers with rule-based reward functions
Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards (2026.acl-industry)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | a large language model (LLM) is used as a business development agent for persuasive price negotiation in online travel agencies. |
| Approach: | They propose a reward-enhancing policy optimization method that integrates three complementary reward sources-a preference-trained reward model and an LLM-as-a-judge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves average dialogue rating to 4.63 (+0.33 over GRPO) and raises share of conversations with at least one excellent response to 66.67% (+23.34 pp over grepo). |