BoT-GRPO: Efficient Process-Reward RL for Reasoning via Bag-of-Token Aggregation
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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.
arXiv:2610.20497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains language models from checked task outcomes, but assigning a terminal reward to individual...
arXiv:2601. 03895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a popular algorithm for reinforcement learning with large language models (LLMs).
arXiv:2607. 26862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a standard reinforcement learning method for post-training language models.
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.
The paper critiques the common reinforcement‑learning approach of sampling tool subsets when the full set of tools is enumerable, showing that sampling leads to degraded policy estimates and increased reward sparsity in genomic reasoning tasks. It proposes Full‑Group Policy Optimization (FGPO), which evaluates every tool subset and precomputes rewards in a table, thereby eliminating the need for frozen‑reasoner calls during training. Experiments across five frozen reasoners and three genomic benchmarks demonstrate that FGPO consistently outperforms GRPO, improving average scores by 6.75 points and reducing the number of invoked tools per question.