Why Sample What You Can Enumerate? Exact Policy Optimization for Genomic Tool Selection
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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.
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