arXiv Machine Learning By Wonseok Lee, Jimyeong Kim, Jungmin Ko, Wonjong Rhee

Beyond On-Policy Exploration: Integrating External Policy Rollouts for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models

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arXiv:2608. 01717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent reinforcement learning methods for diffusion large language models (dLLMs) commonly rely on on-policy rollouts generated by the target dLLM itself.

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