BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards
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arXiv:2606.28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critic-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), avoids training a value function (critic) and reduces memory and compute overhead relative to critic-based PPO pipelines for aligning large language models. However, GRPO-style advantage estimation depends on prompt-local (within-prompt-group) reward statistics and can be unstable. In particular, when all rollouts in a…
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- However, GRPO-style advantage estimation depends on prompt-local (within-prompt-group) reward statistics and can be unstable.
- In particular, when all rollouts in a….
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Research breakthroughs often arrive in products months later—early signals matter for strategy. arXiv cs.AI reports that however, GRPO-style advantage estimation depends on prompt-local (within-prompt-group) reward statistics and can be unstable.
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