How to Train a Critic Stably and Efficiently
Group-based reinforcement learning methods such as GRPO for large language models avoid training a critic by sampling multiple responses for each prompt. A reliable critic could instead estimate token-level advantages from one response, but standard critic-based training recipes are often unstable. We study this instability and develop \textbf{Best-Practice Critic Optimization (BPCO)}, a recipe…
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