Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

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Autores principales: Lei, Xuanyu, Li, Chenliang, Wu, Yuning, Liu, Kaiming, Shen, Weizhou, Li, Peng, Yan, Ming, Huang, Fei, Zhang, Ya-Qin, Liu, Yang
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author Lei, Xuanyu
Li, Chenliang
Wu, Yuning
Liu, Kaiming
Shen, Weizhou
Li, Peng
Yan, Ming
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Liu, Yang
author_facet Lei, Xuanyu
Li, Chenliang
Wu, Yuning
Liu, Kaiming
Shen, Weizhou
Li, Peng
Yan, Ming
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Liu, Yang
contents Recent advances in Large Language Models(LLMs) have enabled strong performance in long-form writing, but current training paradigms remain limited: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) remains constrained by data saturation and performance ceilings, while Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR), though successful in verifiable domains like math and code, cannot be directly migrated to open-ended long-form writing due to a lack of ground-truths. To further advance long-form writing, we present Writing-RL: an Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning framework to advance long-form writing capabilities beyond SFT. The framework consists of three key components: Margin-aware Data Selection strategy that prioritizes samples with high learning potential, Pairwise Comparison Reward mechanism that provides discriminative learning signals in the absence of verifiable rewards, and Dynamic Reference Scheduling approach, which plays a critical role by adaptively adjusting task difficulty based on evolving model performance. Experiments on 7B-scale writer models show that Writing-RL effectively improves long-form writing performance over strong SFT baselines. Furthermore, we observe that models trained with long-output RL generalize surprisingly well to long-input reasoning tasks, potentially offering a promising perspective for rethinking long-context training.
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spellingShingle Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
Lei, Xuanyu
Li, Chenliang
Wu, Yuning
Liu, Kaiming
Shen, Weizhou
Li, Peng
Yan, Ming
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Liu, Yang
Computation and Language
Recent advances in Large Language Models(LLMs) have enabled strong performance in long-form writing, but current training paradigms remain limited: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) remains constrained by data saturation and performance ceilings, while Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR), though successful in verifiable domains like math and code, cannot be directly migrated to open-ended long-form writing due to a lack of ground-truths. To further advance long-form writing, we present Writing-RL: an Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning framework to advance long-form writing capabilities beyond SFT. The framework consists of three key components: Margin-aware Data Selection strategy that prioritizes samples with high learning potential, Pairwise Comparison Reward mechanism that provides discriminative learning signals in the absence of verifiable rewards, and Dynamic Reference Scheduling approach, which plays a critical role by adaptively adjusting task difficulty based on evolving model performance. Experiments on 7B-scale writer models show that Writing-RL effectively improves long-form writing performance over strong SFT baselines. Furthermore, we observe that models trained with long-output RL generalize surprisingly well to long-input reasoning tasks, potentially offering a promising perspective for rethinking long-context training.
title Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05760