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學習尚未掌握的,而非已精通的:多獎勵策略最佳化中的飽和感知優勢重加權

Learn What's Left, Not What's Mastered: Saturation Aware Advantage Reweighting for Multi-Reward Policy Optimization

August 17, 2026
作者: Yixuan Wang, Yifei Chen, Haichao Zhang, Haozheng Luo, Xander Wu, Jie Ni, Yun Fu, Nuno Vasconcelos, Yijiang Li
cs.AI

摘要

具有群體相對優勢的強化學習(RL)已成為後訓練語言模型推理模型的事實標準。然而,在優化多個獎勵目標時,現有方法通常先在群體標準化之前,以固定加權和對獎勵向量進行標量化。我們表明,這種設計會導致兩個根本問題:具有不同獎勵特徵的軌跡可能獲得相同的優勢值;而且所有目標都以固定相對權重進行優化,無論其當前飽和程度如何。因此,訓練會持續將梯度預算分配給已解決的目標,而非專注於剩餘空間更大的目標。我們提出了用於多獎勵策略優化的飽和感知優勢重加權(SA-MRPO),該方法獨立地標準化每個獎勵目標,並根據目標飽和度的批次級估計,自適應地折扣其貢獻。這會動態地將優化努力重新分配給優化不足的目標,同時在實證上維持那些已充分滿足目標的性能。我們進一步表明,飽和感知重加權可以翻轉更新的符號,而不僅僅是重新縮放其幅度。在具有雙目標和三目標獎勵組合的數學推理中,SA-MRPO在15項基準比較中的12項中,於更困難的正確性目標上優於GDPO,在AIME24上的提升高達5%。在適應性推理方面,它在全部五個基準上提高了準確率,平均提高3.8%,在AMC23上最高提高9.2%;在程式碼基準上,通過率最高提高2.3%;同時在所有設定中,較容易的目標保持在其已滿足的水準附近。
English
Reinforcement learning (RL) with group-relative advantages has become the de facto standard for post-training language model reasoners. However, when optimizing multiple reward objectives, existing methods typically scalarize the reward vector with a fixed weighted sum before group-wise standardization. We show that this design leads to two fundamental problems: rollouts with distinct reward profiles can receive identical advantages, and all objectives are optimized with fixed relative weights regardless of their current level of saturation. As a result, training continues to allocate gradient budget to already-solved objectives instead of focusing on those with greater remaining headroom. We introduce Saturation Aware Advantage Reweighting for Multi-Reward Policy Optimization (SA-MRPO), which standardizes each reward objective independently and adaptively discounts its contribution according to a batch-level estimate of objective saturation. This dynamically reallocates optimization effort toward under-optimized objectives while empirically maintaining performance on those that are already well satisfied. We further show that saturation-aware reweighting can reverse the sign of an update, rather than merely rescale its magnitude. Across mathematical reasoning with two- and three-objective reward combinations, SA-MRPO improves the harder correctness objective over GDPO in 12 of 15 benchmark comparisons, with gains of up to 5% on AIME24. On adaptive reasoning it improves accuracy on all five benchmarks, by 3.8% on average and up to 9.2 % on AMC23, and on coding benchmarks it improves pass rate by up to 2.3%, while in all settings maintaining the easier objectives near their already satisfied levels.