ANO: Robust Policy Optimization via Bounded, Redescending Gain Fields
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arXiv:2605.02320v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) dominates reinforcement learning and LLM alignment, yet its hard-clipping mechanism and unconstrained alternatives (e.g., SPO) sit at two extremes of a stability-efficiency dilemma. We argue that this dilemma is best understood dynamically: a surrogate objective is a feedback law on the probability ratio, and its clipping/penalty shape defines a gain field that drives the update dynamics. PPO's clip induces a dead zone (zero feedback outside the trust region), leaving the policy to drift open-loop under mome
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2605.02320v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) dominates reinforcement learning and LLM alignment, yet its hard-clipping mechanism and unconstrained alternatives (e.g., SPO) sit at two extremes of a stability-efficiency dilemma.
- We argue that this dilemma is best understood dynamically: a surrogate objective is a feedback law on the probability ratio, and its clipping/penalty shape defines a gain field that drives the update dynamics.
- PPO's clip induces a dead zone (zero feedback outside the trust region), leaving the policy to drift open-loop under mome
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