RL training runs can yield stronger policies than their best checkpoints

The authors demonstrate that combining two checkpoints from the same run via spectral fusion improves accuracy on math and coding benchmarks without extra training or inference compute.

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Bangji Yang · Jiajun Fan · Hongba Ma · Ruihan Guo · Ge Liu
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The authors show that a completed reinforcement learning (RL) training history contains structure that can be exploited to construct policies stronger than any checkpoint visited during training.

The authors formulate policy-space scaling, expanding the set of deployable policies from a fixed RL history without extending training or increasing inference compute.

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An RL training history can yield policies stronger than its best checkpoint without extra training or inference compute.

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