Density-aware reweighting accelerates multi-reward RL for LLMs

The authors show that reweighting rewards based on how often they provide learning signals speeds convergence in tool calling and math reasoning tasks.

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Tong Zheng · Skylar Zhai · Zhan Cheng · TianMing Sha · Youling Huang · Shuo Zhou · +4 more

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Minnesota Twin Cities · University of Wisconsin–Madison · Stony Brook University · Dalian University of Technology

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The authors propose Density-Aware Reward Aggregation (DARA), a method that calibrates reward contributions in multi-reward reinforcement learning for LLMs.

The authors analyzed multi-reward RL with GDPO normalization and introduced advantage energy as a measure of signal imbalance.

Why this paper

From University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 7 others

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Inverse-square-root weighting by active-group density strengthens sparse reward signals and speeds multi-objective LLM reinforcement learning while preserving competitive final performance.

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