arXiv:2604.16918cs.CLcs.LG2026-04被引 3

让大模型强化学习更高效,自动淘汰过时经验。

Freshness-Aware Prioritized Experience Replay for LLM/VLM Reinforcement Learning

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  • 用动态衰减机制更新经验优先级,避免旧数据干扰
  • 在8个任务上提升46%~367%,显著优于传统方法
  • 适合需要长时间交互的智能体任务,如推理与数学竞赛

强化学习在大语言模型(LLM)和视觉语言模型(VLM)的后训练中表现卓越,主流方法如PPO、GRPO和REINFORCE++采用在线策略,每次梯度更新后丢弃所有轨迹,导致样本效率低下,尤其在多轮交互的智能体任务中代价高昂。经典强化学习中的经验回放通过重用历史轨迹并优先采样高价值数据提升效率,但直接将优先经验回放(PER)应用于大模型会失效——由于百亿参数模型政策快速演化,存储的优先级迅速过时,导致旧高优先级轨迹长期占据采样主导,失去指导意义。本文提出「新鲜度感知的优先经验回放」(Freshness-Aware PER),通过在任意基于PER的优先级上乘以一个基于有效样本量分析的指数年龄衰减因子,解决优先级过时问题。据我们所知,这是首个成功将PER应用于LLM/VLM强化学习的工作。我们在包含0.5B、3B、7B模型的8个多步智能体、推理与数学竞赛任务上进行评估,结果表明:该方法显著优于在线策略基线,在NQ Search任务上提升46%,在Sokoban上提升367%,在VLM FrozenLake上提升133%;而无年龄衰减的标准PER则持续降低性能。代码已公开于https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/Freshness-Aware-PER。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive success in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with on-policy algorithms such as PPO, GRPO, and REINFORCE++ serving as the dominant paradigm. However, these methods discard all collected trajectories after a single gradient update, resulting in poor sample efficiency, particularly wasteful for agentic tasks where multi-turn environment interactions are expensive. While Experience Replay drives sample efficiency in classic RL by allowing agents to reuse past trajectories and prioritize informative ones, directly applying Prioritized Experience Replay (PER) to LLMs fails. The rapid policy evolution of billion-parameter models renders stored priorities stale, causing old high-priority trajectories to dominate sampling long after they have become uninformative. We propose Freshness-Aware PER, which addresses this priority staleness problem by augmenting any PER-based priority with a multiplicative exponential age decay grounded in effective sample size analysis. To the best of our knowledge, Freshness-Aware PER is the first work to successfully apply PER to LLM/VLM reinforcement learning. We evaluate on eight multi-step agentic, reasoning, and math competition tasks with 0.5B, 3B, and 7B models. Freshness-Aware PER significantly outperforms on-policy baselines, achieving +46% on NQ Search, +367% on Sokoban, and +133% on VLM FrozenLake, while standard PER without age decay consistently degrades performance. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/Freshness-Aware-PER.

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