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Xingyu Lu, Jinpeng Wang, Yi-Fan Zhang, Yankai Yang, Yancheng Long, Yiyang Fan, Xuanyu Zheng, Haonan Fan and 8 more
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Key insights
- Hypergeometric analysis demonstrates that the VCap reward's optimum is independent of the reference caption quality, enabling "two-axis weak-to-strong generalization."
- The reward mechanism jointly pushes policies toward maximizing correct facts and minimizing erroneous facts, irrespective of the number of facts in the reference.
- Decoupling the roles of textual references and visual evidence in the reward function provides more reliable and fine-grained factual supervision compared to imitation-style rewards.
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