Beyond Uniform Token-Level Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning
Researchers propose CPPO (Cumulative Prefix-divergence Policy Optimization), a new reinforcement learning method that improves upon standard PPO approaches for LLM training by accounting for position-dependent effects and cumulative policy divergence. The method uses position-weighted thresholds and prefix budgets to better regulate token-level deviations during autoregressive generation, showing improved training stability and reasoning accuracy across model scales.