arXiv AI

Dual-Channel Robust Group-Relative Policy Optimization via Advantage and Sequence-Weight Estimation

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Soft Sequence Policy Optimization

arXiv:2602. 19327v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A significant portion of recent research on Large Language Model (LLM) alignment focuses on developing new policy optimization methods based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO).

By Svetlana Glazyrina, Maksim Kryzhanovskiy, Roman Ischenko
arXiv AI
Jun 30

BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2606. 28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critic-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), avoids training a value function (critic) and reduces memory and compute overhead relative to critic-based PPO pipelines for aligning large language models.

By Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

ACPO: Adaptive Credit Policy Optimization via Fine-Grained Surrogate Entropy

arXiv:2607. 03126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has substantially improved the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), but sparse outcome rewards still make token-level credit assignment difficult.

By Zijun Xie, Yuyang You, Yongzhi Li, Enlei Gong, Zeyu Chen, Quan Chen, Yanhua Cheng, Peng Jiang, Yadong Mu
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization for Heterogenous Preference Alignment

The paper introduces Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization (P‑GRPO), a new alignment framework for large language models that separates advantage estimation from immediate batch statistics. By normalizing advantages using preference‑group‑specific reward histories instead of the concurrent generation group, P‑GRPO maintains contrastive signals for distinct user preferences. Experiments across various tasks show that P‑GRPO converges faster and yields higher rewards than standard GRPO, improving alignment with heterogeneous human preferences while preserving general capabilities.

By Jialu Wang, Heinrich Peters, Asad A. Butt, Navid Hashemi, Alireza Hashemi, Pouya M. Ghari, Joseph Hoover, James Rae, Morteza Dehghani