AI RESEARCH

GRAIL: Gradient-Reweighted Advantages for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2606.04889v1 Announce Type: new Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (e.g. GRPO) is now a common way to improve mathematical reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, current methods usually broadcast one sequence-level advantage to all tokens, or use costly process reward models (PRMs) for step-level supervision. Uniform advantage distribution assumes that all tokens contribute equally to the final reward. This dilutes the gradient signal, since flawed reasoning steps and filler words are updated as strongly as valid logical inferences. To address this, we