arXiv:2608.09805cs.LGcs.AI2026-08

通过参数空间采样提升大模型强化学习的探索能力,效果更优且稳定。

Parameter Exploration for RLVR via Variational Learning

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  • 在参数空间采样不同策略,实现可调控的探索机制。
  • 在数学推理和代码生成任务上平均性能超越标准GRPO,FLOPs相近。
  • 减少无效或错误的生成结果,适合追求训练稳定的LLM强化学习研究者。

探索一直是强化学习研究的重点。近期证据表明,它在大模型强化学习中同样关键,显著影响下游表现。现有方法多在动作空间控制探索,如温度缩放,但仅调节输出分布方差,无法重排词元,限制探索并可能导致训练发散或停滞。本文研究参数空间探索,通过从后验中采样不同策略生成轨迹,采样多样性可作为互补的探索控制手段。我们提出一类方法——扰动参数策略优化(3PO),采用不同采样策略与轨迹分组方式估计奖励。在OLMo-3-1025-7B和Qwen2.5-Math-7B上的实验显示,这些方法在数学推理与代码生成任务中持续提升平均下游性能,接近标准GRPO的FLOPs成本。此外,使用多个参数样本能更显著减少零优势组及错误生成的轨迹,优于GRPO与动作空间基线。整体表明,参数空间探索可有效提升大模型强化学习表现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Exploration has been a focus of reinforcement learning research for a long time. Recently, there has been growing evidence that it is also an important ingredient in LLM reinforcement learning recipes that can significantly impact downstream performance. Many existing methods control exploration in the action-space, for example, using temperature scaling. However, these methods cannot reorder tokens but only influence the variance in the output distribution. This limits exploration and can lead to divergence or stalled training. Here, we investigate parameter-space exploration, where rollouts are generated by sampling different policies from a posterior that may each explore different rollouts. Sampling less or more diverse policies is then a complementary control lever over exploration. We introduce a family of methods called Perturbed Parameter Policy Optimization (3PO) which use different sampling strategies and different rollout grouping for reward estimation. Experiments on OLMo-3-1025-7B and Qwen2.5-Math-7B across mathematical reasoning and code generation tasks show that these approaches consistently improve average downstream performance over standard GRPO at a near-identical FLOPs cost. Moreover, using multiple parameter samples consistently produces fewer zero-advantage groups and malformed or incorrect rollouts during training than GRPO and action-space baselines. Overall, our work presents evidence that parameter-space exploration can improve reinforcement learning for LLMs.

强化学习大模型探索机制

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