Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast | SpinGraph: Innovation framing
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Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast
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date published: 2026-08-10T04:00:00+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-10T07:37:41.850502+00:00
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keywords: reward models, Mixture-of-Experts, interpretability, CoCo, response-level interpretation
author: arXiv Artificial Intelligence
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citation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06400
about: reward models
about: Mixture-of-Experts
about: interpretability
about: CoCo
about: response-level interpretation
mentions: arXiv Artificial Intelligence
abstract: CoCo is a novel interpretation technique for MoE reward models that operates at the response level using contribution contrast. It outperforms router-based, score-based, and sparse autoencoder baselines in coherence, faithfulness, and specialization of expert roles. This is the first systematic study of interpretation methods specifically for MoE reward models.

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  value: CoCo is the first systematic method for interpreting MoE reward models by analyzing response-level contribution contrasts, outperforming prior approaches.
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  value: No discussion of computational overhead, latency trade-offs, or integration complexity with existing MoE training pipelines.; No mention of failure modes, edge cases, or sensitivity to response pair quality.
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  value: It combines novelty signaling ('first systematic study'), evaluative authority ('across automatic and human evaluations'), and loaded descriptors ('faithful', 'coherent', 'specialized') to make CoCo feel like a necessary evolution—while offering no specifics about how those evaluations were conducted or how much better CoCo performs numerically, creating a gap between impression and verifiable scale.
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    text: CoCo yields more coherent, faithful, and specialized interpretations than router-based, score-based, and sparse autoencoder-based alternatives while maintaining competitive reward modeling accuracy.
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    author: arXiv Artificial Intelligence

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