PGPO: Potential-Guided Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Agentic Tasks
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arXiv:2609.02236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective paradigm for LLM post-training, but in multi-turn agentic tasks with sparse terminal rewards, it often provides coarse credit for intermediate actions. To obtain more fine-grained credit assignment, recent work such as GiGPO introduces step-level advantages for intermediate actions. However, these step-level signals still rely on the final outcome of each individual trajectory. As a result, actions within failed trajectories can remain poorly differentiated, so effective actions can
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.02236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective paradigm for LLM post-training, but in multi-turn agentic tasks with sparse terminal rewards, it often provides coarse credit for intermediate actions.
- To obtain more fine-grained credit assignment, recent work such as GiGPO introduces step-level advantages for intermediate actions.
- However, these step-level signals still rely on the final outcome of each individual trajectory.
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