arXiv:2511. 02577v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely regarded as one of the most successful deep reinforcement learning algorithms, known for its robustness and effectiveness across a range of problems.
By Gilad Karpel, Ruida Zhou, Shoham Sabach, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
arXiv:2610.02198v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Several state-of-the-art methods for online reinforcement learning in continuous control improve policies using action gradients of a learned critic....
By Sebastian Sanokowski, Alireza Sarmadi, Majid Khadiv
The paper investigates how reusing past samples can improve the sample efficiency of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). Two variants, wPPO-U and wPPO-BH, are introduced within a multiple importance weighting framework, each reusing data from recent iterations while preserving core PPO mechanics. The authors derive theoretical policy improvement bounds for both variants and empirically evaluate their impact on continuous control tasks.
By Alessandro Montenegro, Riccardo Venturelli, Marco Mussi, Matteo Papini, Alberto Maria Metelli
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:2406.03894v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a popular model-free reinforcement learning algorithm, esteemed for its simplicity and efficacy. However, due...
By Yaozhong Gan, Renye Yan, Xiaoyang Tan, Zhe Wu, Junliang Xing
arXiv:2609.21525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Preference-based reward shaping can guide reinforcement learning, but adding preference signals to the reward may unintentionally change the task being...
By Xuening Wu, Yanlan Kang, Shenqin Yin