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LLM RL optimizes for sequential reasoning We also optimize over the reasoning strategy, incl parallel trains of thought, aggregation of parallel traces, & sequential reasoning This allows the model to better explore & allocate compute at test time https://t.co/na0GAxbY…

SPIRAL: Learning to Search and Aggregate arxiv.org
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  • SPIRAL co-trains three reasoning primitives in one RL framework: sequential chain-of-thought, parallel sampling of traces, and learned aggregation of those traces.
  • The paper reports outperforming GRPO by up to 11× scaling efficiency and 15% higher performance when all three compute primitives are scaled.
  • Training uses set reinforcement learning to make parallel traces collectively useful, plus standard RL to train the aggregation step itself.
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Pretraining a Q-function often doesn’t actually help RL finetuning, compared to initializing Q from scratch. We find that pretraining Q-functions on data from diverse policies is critical to see improvements from pretraining. Paper: https://t.co/dlj5RXVFED https://t.co/hJHpFes03y

Do You Really Need to Pretrain Q-Functions for Online RL Fine-Tuning? arxiv.org
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  • Naive Q-function pretraining on offline data often provides little benefit over random initialization when fine-tuning a pretrained policy online.
  • The mismatch: pretraining targets the pretrained policy's Q-function, not the Q-function that online fine-tuning actually converges to.
  • The proposed IPE method trains multiple diverse policies and pools their rollouts, yielding a 1.26x average improvement on continuous control benchmarks.
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