Contrastive Branch Policy Optimization
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arXiv:2608.24300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) enables language models to learn multi-turn interaction with external tools, yet its sparse outcome rewards provide no signal for identifying which intermediate decisions are responsible for success. Branch sampling induces local comparisons among alternative continuations, but existing methods tend to conflate two distinct problems: allocating a fixed rollout budget and translating branch outcomes into token-level credit. We introduce Contrastive Branch Policy Optimization (CBPO), which dis
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.24300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) enables language models to learn multi-turn interaction with external tools, yet its sparse outcome rewards provide no signal for identifying which intermediate decisions are responsible for success.
- Branch sampling induces local comparisons among alternative continuations, but existing methods tend to conflate two distinct problems: allocating a fixed rollout budget and translating branch outcomes into token-level credit.
- We introduce Contrastive Branch Policy Optimization (CBPO), which dis
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