SGPO extracts strategies from strong-model responses, builds autonomous and guided trajectories, and applies token-level forward-KL distillation with adaptive weighting to outperform SFT and RL baselines by 2.2 points on math benchmarks.
Towards a unified view of large language model post-training.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04419
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SFT supplies entangled compositional traces of atomic skills and routing modules; RL identifies those modules and enables recombination on novel compositions outside the SFT support.
Experiments indicate RL applied early in pre-training often matches full SFT-then-RL performance, targeted data composition outweighs scale for RL success, and averaging RL and SFT objectives outperforms sequential or single methods.
AIPO adds active multi-agent consultation (Verify, Knowledge, Reasoning agents) plus custom importance sampling to RLVR training so LLMs expand their reasoning boundary and then operate without the agents.
Correcting DeepSpeed optimizer and OpenRLHF loss bugs reveals SFT-then-RL outperforms mixed-policy methods by 3.8-22.2 points on math benchmarks.
HAPO adds a hindsight-anchored SSI operator with Thompson gating to GRPO-style RLVR, achieving asymptotic consistency that recovers unbiased on-policy gradients as the policy improves.
Dynamic-TreeRPO replaces independent trajectory sampling with a tree-structured search using dynamic noise intensities and integrates SFT into RL via a weighted Progress Reward Model to achieve better semantic consistency and efficiency in text-to-image generation.
Excessive SFT reduces LLM plasticity for RL; Rejuvenation restores it via base-anchored fusion and targeted neuron resets, yielding better RL performance and OOD generalization.
GAC derives adaptive mixing weights for SFT-RL hybrid post-training from online gradient variance and signal disagreement estimates, improving benchmark performance over fixed schedules with under 1% overhead.
FEST improves RLVR sample efficiency on math and coding benchmarks by combining supervised signals, on-policy signals, and decaying weights on just 128 randomly chosen demonstrations, matching full-dataset baselines.
E3-TIR integrates expert prefixes, guided branches, and self-exploration via mix policy optimization to deliver 6% better tool-use performance with under 10% of the usual synthetic data and 1.46x ROI.
Sequential SFT followed by RL, guided by the Plasticity-Ceiling Framework, achieves higher performance ceilings in LLM mathematical reasoning than synchronized methods by optimizing data scale and transition timing.
Novice programmers completed more tasks with lower workload using GitHub Copilot versus a human partner, but reported significantly more positive and arousing emotions with the human teammate.
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From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning
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RL Excursions during Pre-Training: Re-examining Policy Optimization for LLM training
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AIPO: Learning to Reason from Active Interaction
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SFT-then-RL Outperforms Mixed-Policy Methods for LLM Reasoning
Correcting DeepSpeed optimizer and OpenRLHF loss bugs reveals SFT-then-RL outperforms mixed-policy methods by 3.8-22.2 points on math benchmarks.
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Hindsight-Anchored Policy Optimization: Turning Failure into Feedback in Sparse Reward Settings
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Dynamic-TreeRPO: Breaking the Independent Trajectory Bottleneck with Structured Sampling
Dynamic-TreeRPO replaces independent trajectory sampling with a tree-structured search using dynamic noise intensities and integrates SFT into RL via a weighted Progress Reward Model to achieve better semantic consistency and efficiency in text-to-image generation.
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When RL Fails after SFT: Rejuvenating Model Plasticity for Robust SFT-to-RL Handoff
Excessive SFT reduces LLM plasticity for RL; Rejuvenation restores it via base-anchored fusion and targeted neuron resets, yielding better RL performance and OOD generalization.
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GAC: Noise-Aware Adaptive Mixing for Hybrid SFT-RL Post-Training
GAC derives adaptive mixing weights for SFT-RL hybrid post-training from online gradient variance and signal disagreement estimates, improving benchmark performance over fixed schedules with under 1% overhead.
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Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance
FEST improves RLVR sample efficiency on math and coding benchmarks by combining supervised signals, on-policy signals, and decaying weights on just 128 randomly chosen demonstrations, matching full-dataset baselines.
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E3-TIR: Enhanced Experience Exploitation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning
E3-TIR integrates expert prefixes, guided branches, and self-exploration via mix policy optimization to deliver 6% better tool-use performance with under 10% of the usual synthetic data and 1.46x ROI.
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Rethinking Expert Trajectory Utilization in LLM Post-training for Mathematical Reasoning
Sequential SFT followed by RL, guided by the Plasticity-Ceiling Framework, achieves higher performance ceilings in LLM mathematical reasoning than synchronized methods by optimizing data scale and transition timing.
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