用预估参考值优化智能体推理,提升训练效率与性能。
PVPO: Pre-Estimated Value-Based Policy Optimization for Agentic Reasoning
- 引入参考模型预计算奖励,替代多轮采样比较
- 减少训练对采样次数依赖,降低偏差并提速
- 兼容主流无评判器算法,适合大模型复杂任务
无评判器强化学习方法,特别是群体策略,因其在复杂任务中的高效性受到广泛关注。然而,这类方法高度依赖策略内部多次采样与对比来估计优势,可能导致陷入局部最优并增加计算开销。为此,我们提出PVPO,一种通过优势参考锚点和数据预采样增强的高效强化学习方法。具体地,利用参考模型预先滚动并计算奖励得分作为参考锚点,有效纠正组内对比带来的累积偏差,并显著降低训练中对滚推次数的依赖。同时,参考模型可在数据预采样阶段评估样本难度,从而选择高收益数据以提升训练效率。此外,PVPO与其他先进无评判器强化学习算法正交,具备良好兼容性和互补性。在两个领域九个数据集上的实验表明,PVPO达到当前最优(SOTA)性能,不仅展现出跨任务的鲁棒泛化能力,还表现出不同规模模型下的可扩展性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Critic-free reinforcement learning methods, particularly group policies, have attracted considerable attention for their efficiency in complex tasks. However, these methods rely heavily on multiple sampling and comparisons within the policy to estimate advantage, which may cause the policy to fall into local optimum and increase computational cost. To address these issues, we propose PVPO, an efficient reinforcement learning method enhanced by an advantage reference anchor and data pre-sampling. Specifically, we use the reference model to rollout in advance and employ the calculated reward score as a reference anchor. Our approach effectively corrects the cumulative bias introduced by intra-group comparisons and significantly reduces reliance on the number of rollouts during training. Meanwhile, the reference model can assess sample difficulty during data pre-sampling, enabling effective selection of high-gain data to improve training efficiency. Moreover, PVPO is orthogonal to other advanced critic-free RL algorithms, making it compatible with and complementary to these methods. Experiments conducted on nine datasets across two domains demonstrate that PVPO achieves State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) performance. Our approach not only demonstrates robust generalization across multiple tasks, but also exhibits scalable performance across models of varying scales.
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