arXiv:2604.18578cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

提出BRRL框架,让PPO等算法有理论支撑并提升训练稳定性。

Bounded Ratio Reinforcement Learning

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  • 基于约束优化推导出可解析的最优策略,确保性能持续提升。
  • 新算法BPO在多个环境上稳定性和最终表现优于或持平PPO。
  • 适用于强化学习与大模型微调,为PPO提供新理论解释。

近端策略优化(PPO)因可扩展性和跨领域鲁棒性成为主流的在线强化学习算法,但其启发式截断目标与信任域方法的理论基础存在显著脱节。本文提出有界比率强化学习(BRRL)框架,构建新型正则化与约束的策略优化问题,并推导出其解析最优解,证明该解能保证单调性能提升。针对参数化策略类,设计了最小化优势加权差异的策略优化算法BPO,建立了其损失函数与期望性能之间的下界关系。本框架还为PPO的成功提供了新的理论视角,连接了信任域优化与交叉熵法(CEM)。进一步将BPO扩展为面向大模型微调的组相对BPO(GBPO)。在MuJoCo、Atari及复杂IsaacLab环境(如Humanoid行走)中的实验表明,BPO在稳定性与最终性能上普遍优于或匹配PPO和GRPO;GBPO在大模型微调任务中也表现出色。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has become the predominant algorithm for on-policy reinforcement learning due to its scalability and empirical robustness across domains. However, there is a significant disconnect between the underlying foundations of trust region methods and the heuristic clipped objective used in PPO. In this paper, we bridge this gap by introducing the Bounded Ratio Reinforcement Learning (BRRL) framework. We formulate a novel regularized and constrained policy optimization problem and derive its analytical optimal solution. We prove that this solution ensures monotonic performance improvement. To handle parameterized policy classes, we develop a policy optimization algorithm called Bounded Policy Optimization (BPO) that minimizes an advantage-weighted divergence between the policy and the analytic optimal solution from BRRL. We further establish a lower bound on the expected performance of the resulting policy in terms of the BPO loss function. Notably, our framework also provides a new theoretical lens to interpret the success of the PPO loss, and connects trust region policy optimization and the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM). We additionally extend BPO to Group-relative BPO (GBPO) for LLM fine-tuning. Empirical evaluations of BPO across MuJoCo, Atari, and complex IsaacLab environments (e.g., Humanoid locomotion), and of GBPO for LLM fine-tuning tasks, demonstrate that BPO and GBPO generally match or outperform PPO and GRPO in stability and final performance.

强化学习策略优化理论分析大模型微调

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