arXiv Machine Learning By Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang, Jiajun Chai, Wei Lin, Tianhao Peng, Guojun Yin

Toward Plasticity-Preserving KL Regularization for Capability Retention in LLM Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608. 01743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but optimization toward new objectives can degrade capabilities already present in the base model.

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Post-Training at the Edge of Detectability: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Fine-Tuning

Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning is widely used in language model training to improve model performance on a target task while limiting drift from a reference policy. A standard way to balance this trade-off is via a KL-regularized RL objective, although this formulation does not by itself provide a principled way to set the regularization coefficient.