AI RESEARCH

fg-expo: Frontier-guided exploration-prioritized policy optimization via adaptive kl and gaussian curriculum

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.11403v1 Announce Type: cross Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become the standard paradigm for LLM mathematical reasoning, with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) serving as the dominant algorithm. We identify two overlooked inefficiencies inherent in GRPO. First, a fixed KL coefficient overly restricts policy exploration at moments when the model needs to diverge significantly from the reference policy. Second, uniform question sampling overlooks that moderately difficult problems produce the most informative gradient signals.