Self-privileged critic improves value estimation for RLVR

πPPO reuses verified same-prompt rollouts as contrastive evidence, boosting value quality and policy performance on math reasoning.

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Kun Liang · Chenming Tang · Clive Bai · Weijie Liu · Zeyuan Liu · Qingyang Zhang · +2 more

Peking University · Tencent

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The authors revisit the standard state-only value estimation in PPO for LLM reasoning tasks.

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A self-privileged critic that uses verified same-prompt rollouts as contrastive evidence improves value estimation in RL for LLMs.

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