EDGE-GRPO: Entropy-Driven GRPO with Guided Error Correction for Advantage Diversity
This addresses a specific bottleneck in reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning, offering an incremental improvement over existing methods.
The paper tackles the advantage collapse problem in Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for LLMs, where identical rewards reduce diversity, by proposing EDGE-GRPO with entropy-driven advantage and guided error correction, achieving effectiveness and superiority on reasoning benchmarks.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in enhancing step-by-step reasoning through reinforcement learning. However, the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) algorithm, which relies on sparse reward rules, often encounters the issue of identical rewards within groups, leading to the advantage collapse problem. Existing works typically address this challenge from two perspectives: enforcing model reflection to enhance response diversity, and introducing internal feedback to augment the training signal (advantage). In this work, we begin by analyzing the limitations of model reflection and investigating the policy entropy of responses at the fine-grained sample level. Based on our experimental findings, we propose the EDGE-GRPO algorithm, which adopts \textbf{E}ntropy-\textbf{D}riven Advantage and \textbf{G}uided \textbf{E}rror Correction to effectively mitigate the problem of advantage collapse. Extensive experiments on several main reasoning benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our approach. It is available at https://github.com/ZhangXJ199/EDGE-GRPO.