VPD frames language feedback learning as variational EM so the teacher policy refines itself via trust-region updates on outcomes while the student learns dense token distributions on its own rollouts, outperforming fixed-teacher baselines on reasoning and code tasks.
Reuse your FLOPs: Scaling RL on hard problems by conditioning on very off-policy prefixes.CoRR, abs/2601.18795
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Prefix Sampling replays self-generated trajectory prefixes to control rollout pass rates near 50% in binary-reward RL, delivering wall-clock speedups and modest performance gains on SWE-bench Verified and AIME tasks.
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Learning from Language Feedback via Variational Policy Distillation
VPD frames language feedback learning as variational EM so the teacher policy refines itself via trust-region updates on outcomes while the student learns dense token distributions on its own rollouts, outperforming fixed-teacher baselines on reasoning and code tasks.
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Rollout Pass-Rate Control: Steering Binary-Reward RL Toward Its Most Informative Regime
Prefix Sampling replays self-generated trajectory prefixes to control rollout pass rates near 50% in binary-reward RL, delivering wall-clock speedups and modest performance gains on SWE-bench Verified and AIME tasks.