arXiv:2605.11491cs.LGcs.AI2026-05ACL被引 3

提出新方法解决大模型强化学习中的熵崩溃问题,提升推理稳定性。

Understanding and Preventing Entropy Collapse in RLVR with On-Policy Entropy Flow Optimization

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  • 从分词熵流动态视角分析熵崩溃成因,发现降熵词远多于升熵词。
  • 设计OPEFO机制,自适应平衡熵增熵减更新,保持严格在线策略。
  • 在6个数学推理任务上显著提升训练稳定性和最终性能。

基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)已成为提升大语言模型推理能力的有效范式。然而,现有算法如GRPO常出现熵崩溃,导致过早确定性与优化不稳定。现有修复方法如熵正则化或比率裁剪,或粗粒度控制熵,或依赖近似在线训练。本文从分词级熵流动态重新审视熵崩溃问题,发现降熵词始终多于升熵词,造成严重熵流失衡。该视角统一解释了现有算法的熵崩溃现象,并强调熵动态平衡的重要性。受此启发,我们提出在线策略熵流优化(OPEFO),通过按贡献自适应重标熵增与熵减更新,在严格在线策略下实现熵流平衡。六项数学推理基准测试表明,OPEFO显著提升训练稳定性和最终性能。代码与模型将在发表后公开。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, widely used RLVR algorithms, such as GRPO, often suffer from entropy collapse, leading to premature determinism and unstable optimization. Existing remedies, including entropy regularization and ratio-based clipping heuristics, either control entropy in a coarse-grained manner or rely on approximate on-policy training. In this paper, we revisit entropy collapse from a token-level entropy flow perspective. Our analysis reveals that entropy-decreasing tokens consistently outweigh entropy-increasing ones, resulting in a severely imbalanced entropy flow. This perspective provides a unified explanation of entropy collapse in existing RLVR algorithms and highlights the importance of balancing entropy dynamics. Motivated by this analysis, we propose On-Policy Entropy Flow Optimization (OPEFO), an adaptive entropy flow balancing mechanism that rescales entropy-increasing and entropy-decreasing updates according to their contributions to entropy change, while remaining strict on-policy. Experiments on six mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that OPEFO improves training stability and final performance. We will release the code and models upon publication.

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