S3AC: Stabilized, Selective, and Scalable Actor-Critic for LLM Reasoning
The paper addresses reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for long chain-of-thought reasoning. Critic-free methods avoid costly critic training but lack token-level credit assignment and typically depend on grouped rollouts to estimate prompt-specific baselines. A critic could address both limitations, but the supplied text is truncated before it describes the proposed S3AC method's results or specific design.
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The paper addresses reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for long chain-of-thought reasoning. Critic-free methods avoid costly critic training but lack token-level credit assignment and typically depend on grouped rollouts to estimate prompt-specific baselines. A critic could address both limitations, but the supplied text is truncated before it describes the proposed S3AC method's results or specific design.
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- Critic-free methods are widely used in RLVR for long chain-of-thought reasoning to avoid difficult and costly critic training.
- Common critic-free alternatives lack token-level credit assignment.
- These alternatives typically rely on grouped rollouts to estimate prompt-specific baselines.
- The authors argue a critic can address both of these limitations.
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Credit assignment and baseline estimation affect how efficiently language models learn multi-step reasoning from verifiable rewards. Better methods here could reduce training cost while improving reasoning performance.
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