arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 28026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD).

By Xingjian Wu, Junlin Liu, Xingchen Liu, Xuhang Zhu, Jianing Wang, Linsen Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD). While OPSD provides dense, logit-level supervision, it inherently suffers from exposure bias due to the privileged information of the self-teacher.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Arrive and Survive: Scaling Safe Goal-Conditioned Policy Learning from One-Bit Failure Signals

The paper introduces Safe Contrastive Reinforcement Learning (Safe-CRL), a method that corrects bias in contrastive RL caused by failure-terminated Markov decision processes. By applying mass-weighted InfoNCE and a log-survival-mass score, Safe-CRL uses only a one-bit failure signal to improve survival and goal-reaching performance across twelve robot navigation and locomotion tasks. The approach demonstrates complex failure-avoidance behaviors and completes the theoretical foundation of contrastive RL under failure termination.

By Guopeng Li, Yiyang Duan, Yiru Jiao, Chengcheng Xu
arXiv AI
Oct 12

Rollout-Time Intervention: Unlocking Agentic Reinforcement Learning Beyond Policy Limits

The paper introduces Rollout-Time Intervention (RTI), a method that uses reward-side evidence during rollouts to transform unsuccessful trajectories into successful ones, thereby providing learning signals for tasks beyond a policy’s intrinsic exploration limits. RTI filters out trajectories with excessive distributional shifts, allowing these off-policy interventions to guide policy optimization effectively. Experiments on five benchmarks show that RTI consistently outperforms existing RL baselines, enabling post-trained policies to approach the performance of stronger large language models and surpass their original capability boundaries.

By Chen Xi, Ding Ruixue, Wang Zhigaoyuan, Zhang Fanrui, Zhang Qiang, Chen Boli, Wang Shihang, Wang Tianfu, Ren Ailin, Wang Pengyong, Xie Pengjun, Xiong Hui