解决多奖励强化学习中奖励归一化失效问题,提升训练稳定性和性能。
GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization

- 提出解耦奖励归一化机制,避免不同奖励组合优势值坍缩
- 在工具调用、数学推理等任务上准确率提升12%-18%,崩溃率降低70%
- 适用于需同时满足多种人类偏好的复杂语言模型优化场景
随着语言模型能力增强,用户不仅期望输出准确,还希望行为符合多样化的偏好。为此,强化学习开始引入多个奖励信号以引导模型生成符合需求的行为。然而,现有方法普遍直接使用组相对策略优化(GRPO),未检验其在多奖励场景下的适用性。本文发现,直接对不同回放奖励组合进行归一化会导致其优势值坍缩为相同,降低训练信号分辨率,引发收敛不佳甚至早期训练失败。为此,我们提出群体奖励解耦归一化策略优化(GDPO),通过解耦各奖励的归一化过程,更精准保留其相对差异,显著提升多奖励优化的准确性与训练稳定性。我们在工具调用、数学推理和编码推理三个任务上对比GDPO与GRPO,评估正确性(准确率、缺陷率)和约束遵循度(格式、长度)。结果表明,GDPO在所有设置下均持续优于GRPO,验证了其在多奖励强化学习中的有效性与泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As language models become increasingly capable, users expect them to provide not only accurate responses but also behaviors aligned with diverse human preferences across a variety of scenarios. To achieve this, Reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines have begun incorporating multiple rewards, each capturing a distinct preference, to guide models toward these desired behaviors. However, recent work has defaulted to apply Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) under multi-reward setting without examining its suitability. In this paper, we demonstrate that directly applying GRPO to normalize distinct rollout reward combinations causes them to collapse into identical advantage values, reducing the resolution of the training signal and resulting in suboptimal convergence and, in some cases, early training failure. We then introduce Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization (GDPO), a new policy optimization method to resolve these issues by decoupling the normalization of individual rewards, more faithfully preserving their relative differences and enabling more accurate multi-reward optimization, along with substantially improved training stability. We compare GDPO with GRPO across three tasks: tool calling, math reasoning, and coding reasoning, evaluating both correctness metrics (accuracy, bug ratio) and constraint adherence metrics (format, length). Across all settings, GDPO consistently outperforms GRPO, demonstrating its effectiveness and generalizability for multi-reward reinforcement learning optimization.
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