arXiv:2607.18470cs.LGcs.AI2026-07

RRPO通过参考对比提升强化学习性能,无需任务真值验证器。

RRPO: Reference-Relative Policy Optimization with Stratified Conditional Rollouts

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  • 用分层条件采样构建正负锚点集,进行参考相对对比。
  • 在验证推理、开放生成等场景中表现媲美基于验证器的方法。
  • 适合无真值标签的强化学习任务,尤其适用于后微调阶段优化。

组相对策略优化(GRPO)在可验证反馈的强化学习中表现出色,可在组内通过任务提供的正确性信号比较采样轨迹。然而,将组相对优化扩展到不可验证的任务场景面临挑战,因为许多任务的成功无法由单一正确性标准捕获。本文提出参考相对策略优化(RRPO),通过参考相对对比替代基于正确性的优势构造,推广了GRPO。RRPO首先使用分层条件采样构建正负锚点集,再训练一个度量投影头,采用集合对比目标比较候选轨迹与这些锚点。所得对齐分数直接定义对比优势:在策略优化过程中,投影头冻结,分数在每组内中心化,用于标准组相对目标。我们在整个策略优化过程中使用基于锚点的对比优势,不依赖任务真值验证器。在可验证推理、开放生成及后SFT设置中,RRPO保持与基于验证器优化的竞争性表现,优于弱监督基线,并在监督微调后提供额外增益。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has shown strong effectiveness in reinforcement learning from verifiable feedback, where sampled rollouts can be compared within a group using task-provided correctness signals. However, extending group-relative optimization beyond verifiable settings is challenging because success in many tasks is not captured by a single correctness criterion. We propose \textbf{Reference-Relative Policy Optimization (RRPO)}, which generalizes GRPO by replacing direct correctness-based advantage construction with reference-relative contrastive comparisons. RRPO first uses \emph{stratified conditional rollouts} to construct positive and negative anchor sets, and then trains a metric projection head with a set-contrastive objective to compare candidate rollouts against these anchors. The resulting alignment scores directly define contrastive advantages: during policy optimization, the projection head is frozen, and the scores are centered within each rollout group in a standard group-relative objective. We evaluate RRPO using anchor-based contrastive advantages throughout policy optimization, without relying on task ground-truth verifiers. Across verifiable reasoning, open-ended generation, and post-SFT settings, RRPO remains competitive with verifier-based optimization, improves over weakly supervised baselines, and provides additional gains after supervised fine-tuning.

强化学习对比学习策略优化无验证器

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