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ARXIV:2604.00860 · REINFORCEMENT LEARNING · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 20:59 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.00860REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGSUBMITTED 02 APR · 20:59 UTCFRESHNESS STALEHuaiyang Wang · Xiaojie Li · Deqing Wang · Haoyi Zhou · Zixuan Huang · Yaodong Yang · +2 at arXiv
A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training.
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Pain A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training.
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A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous…
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We provide theoretical analysis showing that PIPO performs ascent on the PIRL objective in expectation, and experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate improved stability…
Reinforcement Learning moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.00860A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training.
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous group-level or batch-level statistics without ever verifying whether the resulting update actually improved the model. This open-loop design -- updating in isolation at each step, guided only by within-group (batch) reward signals -- means optimization can drift or collapse with no mechanism to detect and correct these failures. We argue that the missing ingredient is policy improvement feedback: the ability to measure and optimize inter-iteration progress directly. To this end, we introduce Policy Improvement Reinforcement Learning (PIRL), a framework that replaces surrogate reward maximization with the explicit objective of maximizing cumulative policy improvement across iterations, and prove this temporal objective is perfectly aligned with maximizing final task performance. Building on PIRL, we propose Policy Improvement Policy Optimization (PIPO), which implements closed-loop optimization through retrospective verification. At each iteration, PIPO evaluates whether the previous update yielded genuine improvement against a sliding-window historical baseline, then actively reinforces beneficial updates and suppresses the harmful ones -- transforming an open-loop process into a self-correcting one. We provide theoretical analysis showing that PIPO performs ascent on the PIRL objective in expectation, and experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate improved stability and performance over GRPO and its variants.
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A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous group-level or batch-le...
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous group-level or batch...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We provide theoretical analysis showing that PIPO performs ascent on the PIRL objective in expectation, and experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate improved stability and performance...
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Reinforcement Learning moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A closed-loop reinforcement learning framework that self-corrects by verifying policy improvements across iterations for more stable and performant LLM training. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous group-level or batch-level statistics without ever verifying whether the resulting update actually improved the model.
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. Yet existing methods share a common blind spot: they optimize policies based on instantaneous group-level or batch-level statistics without ever verifying whether the resulting update actually improved the model.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We provide theoretical analysis showing that PIPO performs ascent on the PIRL objective in expectation, and experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate improved stability and performance over GRPO and its variants. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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