为大模型强化学习后训练设计分布级动态课程学习方法。
DUMP: Automated Distribution-Level Curriculum Learning for RL-based LLM Post-training
- 根据策略优势大小与采样次数,动态调整不同数据分布的训练优先级。
- 在多难度逻辑推理数据集上,收敛速度提升30%以上,最终性能更优。
- 适合需要高效训练复杂推理能力的大模型研究者使用。
基于强化学习的后训练使大语言模型在复杂任务推理方面取得显著进展。然而,现有方法通常将训练数据视为单一整体,忽略了现代训练中数据来自多种分布(来源与难度各异)的现实。这种异质性带来关键挑战:如何自适应地调度不同分布的训练以提升效率。本文提出一种基于分布级可学习性的原理化课程学习框架,核心思想是:策略优势的大小反映了模型从某分布进一步训练中获益的程度。基于此,我们采用上置信界(UCB)原则,动态调整不同分布的采样概率,兼顾高平均优势(利用)与低样本数量(探索)。该方法以GRPO为底层强化学习算法,在包含多个难度和来源的逻辑推理数据集上验证有效性。实验表明,本框架显著提升收敛速度与最终性能,凸显分布感知课程策略在大模型后训练中的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training have led to notable improvements in large language models (LLMs), particularly in enhancing their reasoning capabilities to handle complex tasks. However, most existing methods treat the training data as a unified whole, overlooking the fact that modern LLM training often involves a mixture of data from diverse distributions-varying in both source and difficulty. This heterogeneity introduces a key challenge: how to adaptively schedule training across distributions to optimize learning efficiency. In this paper, we present a principled curriculum learning framework grounded in the notion of distribution-level learnability. Our core insight is that the magnitude of policy advantages reflects how much a model can still benefit from further training on a given distribution. Based on this, we propose a distribution-level curriculum learning framework for RL-based LLM post-training, which leverages the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) principle to dynamically adjust sampling probabilities for different distrubutions. This approach prioritizes distributions with either high average advantage (exploitation) or low sample count (exploration), yielding an adaptive and theoretically grounded training schedule. We instantiate our curriculum learning framework with GRPO as the underlying RL algorithm and demonstrate its effectiveness on logic reasoning datasets with multiple difficulties and sources. Our experiments show that our framework significantly improves convergence speed and final performance, highlighting the value of distribution-aware curriculum strategies in LLM post-training. Code: https://github.com/ZhentingWang/DUMP.
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