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Turning Off-Policy Tokens On-Policy: A Plug-in Approach for Improving LLM Alignment

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Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) follows a efficient paradigm of "rollout then update", which inevitably results in off-policy training data. To resolve this, Importance sampling (IS) is proposed, while the token-level ratios compound over long sequences, causing severe variance exploded.

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