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Zhengyang (Jason) Qi

Research Scientist
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Snorkel AI

I am an aspiring AI researcher with a diverse range of experience in frontier AI research, large scalable machine learning systems, and applied analytics in social science. I believe in the interactionist approach to intelligence development, through granular feedbacks from grounded, open-ended environments, where robust rewards are essential to forge systems that learn, adapt, and evolve through interactions.

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RIFT: A Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy and Automated Diagnostics
Rubric-based evaluation is widely used in LLM benchmarks and training pipelines for open-ended, less verifiable tasks. While prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of rubrics using downstream signals such as reinforcement learning outcomes, there remains no principled way to diagnose rubric quality issues from such aggregated or downstream signals alone. To address this gap, we introduce RIFT: RubrIc Failure mode Taxonomy, a taxonomy for systematically characterizing failure modes in rubric composition and design. RIFT consists of eight failure modes organized into three high-level categories: Reliability Failures, Content Validity Failures, and Consequential Validity Failures. RIFT is developed using grounded theory by...
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Accepted to ICLR Brazil 2026
RIFT: A Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy and Automated Diagnostics

Rubric-based evaluation is widely used in LLM benchmarks and training pipelines for open-ended, less verifiable tasks. While prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of rubrics using downstream signals such as reinforcement learning outcomes, there remains no principled way to diagnose rubric quality issues from such aggregated or downstream signals alone. To address this gap, we introduce RIFT: RubrIc Failure mode…

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