arXiv Machine Learning

ReCo: Reweighting GRPO Against Distributional Concentration

arXiv:2607. 26862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a standard reinforcement learning method for post-training language models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Selective-Advantage Entropy-Adaptive Horizon GRPO: Asymmetric Token-Level Discounting for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Language Models

arXiv:2606. 05434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimisation (GRPO) has emerged as an effective reinforcement-learning algorithm for aligning language models on reasoning tasks, but it treats every token position and every sampled rollout symmetrically.

By Chirag Chawla, Rohan Charudatt Salvi, Madhav S. Baidya
arXiv AI
Sep 15

HISPO: Hierarchical Importance-Sampling Policy Optimization with Entropy-Derived Segments

HISPO introduces a segment‑level policy‑optimization technique for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, creating entropy‑derived contiguous segments during rollout and applying clipped importance‑sampling correction at this granularity. It bridges the gap between token‑level and sequence‑level corrections, offering a middle‑ground approach for credit assignment in long‑form mathematical reasoning. Evaluated on Qwen3‑1.7B‑Base across six benchmarks, HISPO consistently outperforms or matches the strongest baselines in Pass@8 and Acc@8 metrics, notably improving AIME25 scores over GRPO and GSPO.

By Quoc-Vinh Lai-Dang, Hyo-Sang Shin
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

ConsensusBench: Benchmark of Consensus Nodes for LLM Reasoning via Outcome Reward Densifying

ConsensusBench is a new dataset that supplies rule‑based process‑level signals for large language model reasoning. It identifies key intermediate conclusions—called Consensus Nodes—by filtering correct trajectories and clustering semantically equivalent statements. By incorporating a process reward derived from these nodes into GRPO‑style reinforcement learning, the authors create ConsensusPR, which reduces reward sparsity and improves performance on benchmarks such as AIME, GSM8K, and MATH‑500.

By Shi-Qi Yan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Zhen-Hua Ling
arXiv AI
2d ago

Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States

The paper introduces POISE, a reinforcement learning algorithm that uses a model’s internal states as a value estimator to reduce variance in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). By employing a lightweight probe that reads internal signals during the forward pass, POISE predicts baselines online and uses a cross‑rollout construction to keep gradients unbiased. Experiments on Qwen3‑4B and OLMo3‑7B‑Instruct‑DPO across six domains show POISE outperforms existing RLVR baselines, offering more stable training and a value model that generalizes across tasks and scales with the policy.

By Yunho Choi, Jongwon Lim, Woojin Ahn, Minjae Oh, Jeonghoon Shim, Yohan Jo
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Beyond Entropy: Learning from Token-Level Distributional Deviations for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 19771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has significantly advanced Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning; however, it faces a fundamental optimization instability: uniform token updates precipitate entropy collapse, leading to premature convergence to suboptimal strategies, whereas excessive Shannon Entropy maximization can cause entropy explosion, driving blind exploration toward incoherent reasoning chains.

By Xuanzhi Feng, Zhengyang Li, Zeyu Liu, Haoxi Li, Yuming Jiang, Bing Guo, Jingcai Guo, Jie Zhang, Song Guo