通过优先重放缓存有效样本,用更少推理次数提升大模型推理能力。
RLVR without Ineffective Samples: Group Prioritized Off-Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

- 用新机制筛选并重用有效推理组,避免无效样本浪费计算资源。
- 在数学、规划等任务上减少80%以上推理次数,性能仍领先现有方法。
- 适合追求高效微调的大模型研究者,尤其关注推理能力优化的团队。
基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)已成为提升大语言模型(LLM)推理能力的重要范式。然而,其效果常受大量无效训练数据制约:许多采样提示生成的响应组要么全对,要么全错,导致奖励方差为零,学习信号匮乏。现有先进方法通过大量LLM回放来过滤无效样本,但计算开销巨大;其他方法如预测采样和轨迹重播虽提升数据效率,却往往效果不足,甚至引入系统性偏差或次优约束。为此,我们提出组优先离策略优化(POPO),一个无需额外回放开销、充分挖掘有效训练批次的简单而高效框架。POPO包含两个核心组件:优先组重播与解耦离策略优化。前者通过基于时效性的重播机制,将无效的在线策略组替换为有效的离策略组,综合考虑样本质量与离策略程度;为缓解离策略差距,POPO采用解耦重要性采样,在保持一致信任区域约束下稳定更新策略。在数学、规划和视觉几何等多样化推理任务上的实证评估表明,POPO显著加速了强化学习微调过程,并以极低的回放次数实现优异的推理性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, its effectiveness is substantially hindered by the prevalence of ineffective training data: many sampled prompts yield response groups that are either entirely correct or entirely incorrect, resulting in zero-variance rewards and limited learning signals. Recent state-of-the-art methods address this issue through extensive LLM rollouts to filter ineffective samples, but at the cost of considerable computational overhead. Alternative approaches, including predictive sampling and trajectory replay, aim to improve data efficiency but often remain insufficient and may introduce additional issues such as systematic bias or suboptimal constraints. To address these limitations, we propose Group Prioritized Off-Policy Optimization (POPO), a simple yet effective framework that fully exploits effective training batches without additional rollout overhead. POPO comprises two key components: prioritized group replay and decoupled off-policy optimization. The former replaces ineffective on-policy groups with effective off-policy groups via a recency-based replay mechanism that jointly considers sample quality and the degree of off-policiness. To further mitigate the off-policy gap, POPO employs decoupled importance sampling to correct off-policy bias while maintaining stable policy updates under consistent trust-region constraints. Empirical evaluations across diverse reasoning tasks, including mathematics, planning, and visual geometry, demonstrate that POPO substantially accelerates RL finetuning and achieves strong reasoning performance with significantly fewer rollouts.
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