arXiv AI

Beyond Uniform Token-Level Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 10968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become standard for improving LLM reasoning.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Group Adaptive Clipping Policy Optimization

Group Adaptive Clipping Policy Optimization (GAPO) is a plug‑in modification to GRPO methods that adapts the importance‑sampling clipping boundary based on rollout advantage. By allowing rollouts with larger learning signals to receive proportionally greater update headroom, GAPO addresses the limitation of fixed clipping that suppresses rare but informative rollouts. Experiments on Qwen and Llama models show that GAPO consistently improves Pass@1 and Pass@k on math reasoning and coding benchmarks where base model pass rates are low.

By Sheng Jia, Xiao Wang, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Rein Houthooft
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

Unleashing Implicit Rewards: Prefix-Value Learning for Distribution-Level Optimization

The paper introduces the Implicit Prefix-Value Reward Model (IPVRM), which learns the probability of eventual correctness for each prefix directly from outcome labels, thereby aligning training targets with inference-time step signals via temporal-difference differences. IPVRM improves step-verification F1 on ProcessBench. Additionally, the authors propose Distribution-Level RL (DistRL), a policy optimization method that applies TD advantages to both sampled and high-probability tokens, offering dense counterfactual updates without extra rollouts, and show that DistRL consistently enhances downstream reasoning when combined with IPVRM.

By Shiping Gao, Hongzhan Chen, Xiaojun Quan, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang