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Yi-Zhuo Li

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking Critic Learning in PPO: Understanding and Mitigating Value Flattening

Value Flattening is identified as an important yet overlooked failure mode of critic learning in standard PPO and a simple sparse supervision strategy can mitigate it; SParse Proximal Policy Optimization is introduced, which applies the value loss to only a few well-separated states in each response to mitigate both ef...

Yi-Zhuo Li, Jian-Hao Yan, Yun Luo et al. · 1 citation

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SimpleOPD: Simple Tokenizer-Agnostic On-Policy Distillation for Long-Context Reasoning

This work introduces a student reference KL loss and mask the advantages of special termination tokens to mitigate the problem of excessive generation length and frequent truncation, and improves on science benchmarks such as HLE and HiPhO, suggesting that OPD transfers reasoning capabilities that generalize beyond the...

Haonan He, Hao Lei, Yun Luo et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1