arXiv:2511.04256cs.CL2025-11被引 4

提出子句级策略优化,解决大模型强化训练中的不稳定问题。

SSPO: Subsentence-level Policy Optimization

  • 在子句层面计算重要性比率,平衡粒度与稳定性。
  • 在五个数学数据集上平均得分46.72,优于GRPO和GSPO。
  • 适合追求稳定高效推理训练的模型开发者使用。

作为大语言模型后训练的关键组件,基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)显著提升了推理性能。然而,现有RLVR算法存在明显稳定性问题:GRPO在词元级计算重要性比率,过度关注单个词元,易受异常值影响导致训练崩溃;GSPO在响应级计算比率,虽缓解方差但常出现近零裁剪比例——极端词元比值被同响应其他词元稀释,导致整个响应被无差别保留,引发不稳定的更新。本文提出SSPO,将重要性比率计算置于子句层级,在GRPO与GSPO之间取得平衡。此外,引入子句级熵信息动态调整裁剪边界:高熵词元鼓励探索,低熵词元收紧裁剪范围。实验显示,SSPO在Qwen2.5-1.5B-Math模型上五数据集平均得分为46.72,优于GRPO(43.01)与GSPO(44.42),并在四个数据集上达到当前最优;在Qwen2.5-7B-Math上亦超越五种基线方法,证明其在RLVR中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As a key component of large language model (LLM) post-training, Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved reasoning performance. However, existing RLVR algorithms exhibit distinct stability issues: GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) often suffers from unstable policy updates, while GSPO (Group Sequence Policy Optimization) can retain high-variance tokens. In GRPO, the importance ratio is computed at the token level, which overemphasizes individual tokens and makes learning sensitive to outliers, potentially causing training collapse. GSPO instead computes a response-level importance ratio, mitigating variance and reducing the accumulation of token-level noise present in GRPO. Nevertheless, our experiments show that GSPO frequently yields a near-zero clipping fraction: extreme token-level ratios can be diluted by other tokens in the same response, causing the entire response to be retained and resulting in unstable updates. We propose SSPO, which computes importance ratios at the subsentence level, striking a balance between GRPO and GSPO. SSPO alleviates training collapse and excessive variance while avoiding the failure mode in which the clipping mechanism indiscriminately retains entire responses. Moreover, we incorporate subsentence-level entropy into PPO-CLIP to adaptively adjust the clipping bounds: we encourage exploration for high-entropy tokens while tightening the clipping range for low-entropy tokens. Empirically, SSPO achieves an average score of 46.72 across five datasets on Qwen2.5-1.5B-Math model, outperforming GRPO (43.01) and GSPO (44.42), and attains state-of-the-art results on four datasets. On Qwen2.5-7B-Math model, SSPO also achieves the highest averaged scores over five baseline methods. These results demonstrate SSPO's effectiveness in RLVR.

强化学习大模型训练策略优化推理增强

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