Targeting Pivotal Decisions for Credit Assignment in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2609.36178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a promising approach for training large language model agents. However, its uniform assignment of trajectory-level advantages to all policy tokens fails to distinguish consequential decisions from less relevant ones, obscuring which intermediate decisions contributed to success. We introduce ProVer, a framework that targets potentially pivotal decisions for fine-grained credit assignment in agentic reinforcement learning. Given a rollout group, an agentic judge contrasts successful and failed
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.36178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a promising approach for training large language model agents.
- However, its uniform assignment of trajectory-level advantages to all policy tokens fails to distinguish consequential decisions from less relevant ones, obscuring which intermediate decisions contributed to success.
- We introduce ProVer, a framework that targets potentially pivotal decisions for fine-grained credit assignment in agentic reinforcement learning.
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