AI RESEARCH

expo: Exploration-prioritized policy optimization via adaptive kl regulation and gaussian curriculum sampling

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.09923v1 Announce Type: new Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become the standard paradigm for LLM mathematical reasoning, where Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) serves as the mainstream algorithm. We point out two understudied inefficiencies existing in GRPO. First, the fixed KL penalty coefficient overly restricts policy exploration at stages where the model requires significant deviation from the reference policy. Second, uniform sampling of