CARM: Cancellation-Aware Response Masking for LLM Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2610.02039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rapid adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) in large language model (LLM) post-training, with substantial gains in mathematical reasoning and code generation. In practical systems, however, policy updates and differences between rollout and training engines can make sampled responses off-policy. Sequence-level masking addresses this mismatch by deciding whether an entire response should contribute to optimization. A common masking rule uses the length-normalized geometric mean of sampled token probability ratio
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.02039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rapid adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) in large language model (LLM) post-training, with substantial gains in mathematical reasoning and code generation.
- In practical systems, however, policy updates and differences between rollout and training engines can make sampled responses off-policy.
- Sequence-level masking addresses this mismatch by deciding whether an entire response should contribute to optimization.
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