arXiv Machine Learning By Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu, Eiji Uchibe

Consensus Group Relative Policy Optimization for Text Generation

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Consensus Group Relative Policy Optimization (C‑GRPO) is a new training method that distills Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding into a group‑relative objective, enabling text generation models to approximate MBR performance without the costly inference‑time sampling and scoring. C‑GRPO only needs a utility function and policy samples, avoiding the need for gold references or curated preference data. Experiments on WMT 2024 machine translation and XSum summarization show that C‑GRPO matches MBR decoding quality while reducing inference overhead and outperforming other reference‑free baselines.

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