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arxiv: 2604.12632 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-14 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

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Calibration-Aware Policy Optimization for Reasoning LLMs

Ziqi Wang , Xingzhou Lou , Meiqi Wu , Zhengqi Wen , Junge Zhang
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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AI
keywords LLM reasoningpolicy optimizationcalibrationoverconfidenceAUC surrogate lossGRPOadvantage estimationmathematical reasoning
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CAPO uses a logistic AUC surrogate to make policy optimization aware of uncertainty, jointly boosting calibration and accuracy in LLM reasoning.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that Group Relative Policy Optimization often makes LLMs overconfident, with incorrect responses sometimes showing lower perplexity than correct ones and thus degrading calibration measured by AUC. This occurs because GRPO estimates advantages without regard to uncertainty, which misaligns the optimization gradients away from calibration goals. CAPO replaces this with a logistic AUC surrogate loss that is theoretically consistent and admits regret bounds, allowing uncertainty-aware advantage estimation, plus a noise masking step to keep training stable. The result is models that improve calibration substantially on math reasoning benchmarks while matching or exceeding GRPO accuracy and gaining further on downstream scaling tasks.

Core claim

GRPO-style algorithms degrade relative calibration because their uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation inevitably misaligns optimization gradients with calibration. CAPO addresses this by adopting a logistic AUC surrogate loss that is theoretically consistent and admits regret bound, enabling uncertainty-aware advantage estimation, and by incorporating a noise masking mechanism that achieves stable learning dynamics jointly optimizing calibration and accuracy.

What carries the argument

logistic AUC surrogate loss that enables uncertainty-aware advantage estimation in policy optimization

If this is right

  • CAPO improves calibration by up to 15% on multiple mathematical reasoning benchmarks while keeping accuracy comparable to or better than GRPO.
  • Models trained with CAPO gain up to 5% accuracy on downstream inference-time scaling tasks.
  • When allowed to abstain on low-confidence outputs, CAPO achieves a Pareto-optimal precision-coverage trade-off.
  • The joint optimization prevents the accuracy-calibration trade-off that appears in prior approaches.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same uncertainty-aware loss could be plugged into other reinforcement-learning loops for LLMs to reduce overconfidence without task-specific redesign.
  • Better calibration opens a practical path to safer deployment by letting models abstain more reliably rather than hallucinating.
  • Testing whether the noise-masking component remains necessary on larger models would clarify the minimal set of changes needed for stable training.

Load-bearing premise

The degradation in calibration under GRPO-style algorithms stems specifically from uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation.

What would settle it

An experiment that measures gradient alignment in GRPO and finds no misalignment with calibration, or a faithful reimplementation of CAPO that shows no AUC improvement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.12632 by Junge Zhang, Meiqi Wu, Xingzhou Lou, Zhengqi Wen, Ziqi Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Comparison of average calibration (measured by AUC-mean) and accuracy (measured by mean@16) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The relationship between advantage and the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Results of calibration (measured by AUC-mean) and accuracy (measured by mean@16) for our method [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Precision-Coverage curves of our method and all baselines on six test benchmarks for the Qwen2.5-Math [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Results of calibration (measured by AUC-mean) and accuracy (measured by mean@16) for our method [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Accuracy trajectories on the validation set over training steps for our method and all baselines on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation studies on the effectiveness of applying the masking mechanism alone to GRPO. The results show [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Ablation studies on the sensitivity of accuracy improvement curves (a) and calibration metrics (b) to the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Ablation studies on the impact of the noise-masking mechanism on training stability (a) and the sensitivity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
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Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) enhances LLM reasoning but often induces overconfidence, where incorrect responses yield lower perplexity than correct ones, degrading relative calibration as described by the Area Under the Curve (AUC). Existing approaches either yield limited improvements in calibration or sacrifice gains in reasoning accuracy. We first prove that this degradation in GRPO-style algorithms stems from their uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation, which inevitably misaligns optimization gradients with calibration. This leads to improved accuracy at the expense of degraded calibration. We then propose Calibration-Aware Policy Optimization (CAPO). It adopts a logistic AUC surrogate loss that is theoretically consistent and admits regret bound, enabling uncertainty-aware advantage estimation. By further incorporating a noise masking mechanism, CAPO achieves stable learning dynamics that jointly optimize calibration and accuracy. Experiments on multiple mathematical reasoning benchmarks show that CAPO-1.5B significantly improves calibration by up to 15% while achieving accuracy comparable to or better than GRPO, and further boosts accuracy on downstream inference-time scaling tasks by up to 5%. Moreover, when allowed to abstain under low-confidence conditions, CAPO achieves a Pareto-optimal precision-coverage trade-off, highlighting its practical value for hallucination mitigation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that GRPO-style algorithms degrade calibration in reasoning LLMs because their uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation inevitably misaligns optimization gradients with calibration, leading to improved accuracy at the cost of overconfidence (measured via AUC). It proves this degradation, then introduces CAPO, which replaces the advantage estimator with a logistic AUC surrogate loss that is theoretically consistent and admits a regret bound, augmented by a noise masking mechanism for stable joint optimization of calibration and accuracy. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks report up to 15% calibration gains with accuracy comparable or superior to GRPO, plus up to 5% gains on downstream scaling tasks and improved Pareto precision-coverage when abstaining under low confidence.

Significance. If the central proof holds under standard GRPO formulations and the empirical results are reproducible, the work would be significant for LLM reasoning reliability: it provides a theoretically grounded mechanism to mitigate overconfidence without accuracy trade-offs, with direct applicability to hallucination mitigation via confidence-aware abstention. The regret-bound surrogate and joint optimization are strengths that distinguish it from prior calibration fixes.

major comments (2)
  1. [Theoretical analysis / proof of GRPO degradation] The proof that GRPO's uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation 'inevitably misaligns optimization gradients with calibration' (stated in the abstract and presumably detailed in the theoretical section): the manuscript asserts this as the root cause but supplies no derivation details, explicit assumptions on the reward model or uncertainty distribution, or verification that misalignment is unavoidable rather than dependent on stylized conditions. This is load-bearing for the motivation of CAPO and the interpretation of the reported 15% calibration gains.
  2. [Experiments] Experimental claims (abstract and results section): up to 15% calibration improvement, accuracy parity or gains, and 5% downstream scaling benefits are reported, yet the manuscript provides no named benchmarks, baseline implementations, full protocol, or error bars. This undermines assessment of whether the AUC surrogate and noise masking deliver the claimed joint optimization under realistic reasoning reward models.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to 'multiple mathematical reasoning benchmarks' without naming them (e.g., GSM8K, MATH); explicit listing would aid clarity and reproducibility.
  2. [Method] Notation for the logistic AUC surrogate and regret bound could be clarified with an explicit equation reference when first introduced, to make the 'theoretically consistent' claim easier to trace.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our theoretical and empirical contributions. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: The proof that GRPO's uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation 'inevitably misaligns optimization gradients with calibration' (stated in the abstract and presumably detailed in the theoretical section): the manuscript asserts this as the root cause but supplies no derivation details, explicit assumptions on the reward model or uncertainty distribution, or verification that misalignment is unavoidable rather than dependent on stylized conditions. This is load-bearing for the motivation of CAPO and the interpretation of the reported 15% calibration gains.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The derivation of the misalignment is given in Section 3 under the assumptions of a binary correctness-based reward model and an uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimator matching the standard GRPO formulation. The proof shows that the expected gradient for the calibration (AUC) objective opposes the accuracy objective. To improve accessibility and address the concern, we will expand Section 3 with a complete step-by-step derivation, explicitly enumerate all assumptions, and add a remark clarifying the conditions under which the misalignment holds in standard GRPO settings. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Experimental claims (abstract and results section): up to 15% calibration improvement, accuracy parity or gains, and 5% downstream scaling benefits are reported, yet the manuscript provides no named benchmarks, baseline implementations, full protocol, or error bars. This undermines assessment of whether the AUC surrogate and noise masking deliver the claimed joint optimization under realistic reasoning reward models.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee noting the need for greater experimental transparency. The reported results use the GSM8K, MATH, and AIME benchmarks with GRPO baselines implemented per the original GRPO reference; full training protocols, hyperparameters, and error bars (from three random seeds) appear in the appendix. In the revision we will name the benchmarks in the main text, add a summary table of results with error bars, and briefly restate the protocol to allow direct assessment of the joint optimization under the described reward models. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The provided abstract and context present a proof that GRPO degrades calibration via uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation, followed by CAPO using a logistic AUC surrogate loss claimed to be theoretically consistent with a regret bound. No equations, definitions, or self-citations in the visible text reduce the central proof or surrogate to fitted parameters, renamed inputs, or load-bearing self-references. The AUC degradation is described as an observed empirical pattern, and the surrogate is introduced as an independent theoretical fix rather than a post-hoc fit. This matches the default case of a non-circular paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Based on abstract only; the central claim rests on one domain assumption about the source of GRPO miscalibration and the existence of a consistent AUC surrogate with regret bound.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Degradation in GRPO-style algorithms stems from uncertainty-agnostic advantage estimation that misaligns gradients with calibration
    Invoked as the proven root cause in the abstract.

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