Sparrow Paper: Training Trustworthy Dialogue Agents with Rule-Conditional Reward Models

The CI/CD pipeline is red again. You switch back to the logs and find the model confidently inventing an API endpoint that does not exist. DeepMind’s Sparrow paper proposes an RCRM architecture that uses rule-conditional reward models and evidence chains to let the model automatically verify sources while generating. This is not about making the model smarter. It is about teaching it how to prove that its answer is correct.