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arXiv CS.AI·Aug 31·5 min read
PAPO: Stabilizing Rubric Integration Training via Decoupled Advantage Normalization
TL;DR
Process-Aware Policy Optimization (PAPO) enhances Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) by integrating process-level evaluation, leading to improved model performance. Experiments show PAPO achieves 51.3% accuracy on OlympiadBench, surpassing the 46.3% of traditional outcome reward models.
✦ Why It Matters
Implement PAPO in your AI training to enhance model accuracy and reasoning quality today.
Key Takeaways
- Adopt PAPO for better model training outcomes.
- Utilize decoupled advantage normalization to improve reasoning quality.
- Monitor performance metrics to avoid reward hacking.
- Experiment with different model scales for optimal results.
How It Works
PAPO integrates two distinct components for training: Aout, which focuses on the correctness of final answers, and Aproc, which evaluates the quality of reasoning based on a rubric. By normalizing Aout across all responses and Aproc only among correct ones, PAPO stabilizes training and prevents models from exploiting the evaluation criteria.