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Dun Yuan

1 accepted papers

2026

Escaping Policy Contraction: Contraction-Aware PPO (CaPPO) for Stable Language Model Fine-Tuning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) with proximal policy optimization (PPO) is widely used but often yields less diverse outputs than supervised fine-tuning, suggesting an effect in which the policy’s support contracts during on-policy optimization. We formalize this “policy contractio…

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