From Imitation to Discrimination: Toward A Generalized Curriculum Advantage Mechanism Enhancing Cross-Domain Reasoning Tasks

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Autores principales: Yang, Changpeng, Wu, Jinyang, Liu, Yuchen, Zhang, Shuai, Li, Yang, Liang, Qiliang, Wang, Hongzhen, Nie, Shuai, Xu, Jiaming, Shi, Runyu, Huang, Ying, Zhang, Guoquan
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author Yang, Changpeng
Wu, Jinyang
Liu, Yuchen
Zhang, Shuai
Li, Yang
Liang, Qiliang
Wang, Hongzhen
Nie, Shuai
Xu, Jiaming
Shi, Runyu
Huang, Ying
Zhang, Guoquan
author_facet Yang, Changpeng
Wu, Jinyang
Liu, Yuchen
Zhang, Shuai
Li, Yang
Liang, Qiliang
Wang, Hongzhen
Nie, Shuai
Xu, Jiaming
Shi, Runyu
Huang, Ying
Zhang, Guoquan
contents Reinforcement learning has emerged as a paradigm for post-training large language models, boosting their reasoning capabilities. Such approaches compute an advantage value for each sample, reflecting better or worse performance than expected, thereby yielding both positive and negative signals for training. However, the indiscriminate mixing of the two signals in existing methods, especially from the early stages, may lead to ambiguous guidance and limited gains. To address this issue, we propose **CAPO** (**C**urriculum **A**dvantage **P**olicy **O**ptimization), an adaptive curriculum mechanism based on advantage signals. The proposed mechanism bootstraps imitation learning with positive-only advantage samples to establish robust foundations, and subsequently introduces negative signals to cultivate discriminative capabilities, thereby improving generalization across complex scenarios. Compatible with diverse optimization methods including GRPO, PPO, RLOO, and Reinforce++, our method consistently achieves stable and significant improvements in mathematical reasoning tasks, and further generalizes effectively to multimodal Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning scenarios, establishing itself as a versatile and robust optimization framework.
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spellingShingle From Imitation to Discrimination: Toward A Generalized Curriculum Advantage Mechanism Enhancing Cross-Domain Reasoning Tasks
Yang, Changpeng
Wu, Jinyang
Liu, Yuchen
Zhang, Shuai
Li, Yang
Liang, Qiliang
Wang, Hongzhen
Nie, Shuai
Xu, Jiaming
Shi, Runyu
Huang, Ying
Zhang, Guoquan
Computation and Language
Reinforcement learning has emerged as a paradigm for post-training large language models, boosting their reasoning capabilities. Such approaches compute an advantage value for each sample, reflecting better or worse performance than expected, thereby yielding both positive and negative signals for training. However, the indiscriminate mixing of the two signals in existing methods, especially from the early stages, may lead to ambiguous guidance and limited gains. To address this issue, we propose **CAPO** (**C**urriculum **A**dvantage **P**olicy **O**ptimization), an adaptive curriculum mechanism based on advantage signals. The proposed mechanism bootstraps imitation learning with positive-only advantage samples to establish robust foundations, and subsequently introduces negative signals to cultivate discriminative capabilities, thereby improving generalization across complex scenarios. Compatible with diverse optimization methods including GRPO, PPO, RLOO, and Reinforce++, our method consistently achieves stable and significant improvements in mathematical reasoning tasks, and further generalizes effectively to multimodal Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning scenarios, establishing itself as a versatile and robust optimization framework.
title From Imitation to Discrimination: Toward A Generalized Curriculum Advantage Mechanism Enhancing Cross-Domain Reasoning Tasks
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02580