HISPO: Hierarchical Importance-Sampling Policy Optimization with Entropy-Derived Segments
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arXiv:2609.15471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a central approach for improving mathematical reasoning in language models, but long-form completions introduce a difficult credit-assignment problem: different parts of a solution trace may contribute unevenly to final correctness. Existing policyoptimization objectives for RLVR commonly apply importance-sampling correction at either the token level (GRPO, DAPO) or the sequence level (GSPO), imposing different granularities for assigning credit across a response. We introduce Hiera
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.15471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a central approach for improving mathematical reasoning in language models, but long-form completions introduce a difficult credit-assignment problem: different parts of a solution trace may contribute unevenly to final correctness.
- Existing policyoptimization objectives for RLVR commonly apply importance-sampling correction at either the token level (GRPO, DAPO) or the sequence level (GSPO), imposing different granularities for assigning credit across a response.
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