MDP-GRPO: Stabilized Group Relative Policy Optimization for Multi-Constraint Instruction Following 文章

ArXiv CS.CL2026-06-05NEWSen作者: Mohammad Mahdi Salmani-Zarchi, Zahra Rahimi, Heshaam Faili, Mohammad Javad Dousti

摘要

arXiv:2606.06058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is ideal for multi-constraint instruction following, yet standard group-relative policy optimization (GRPO) becomes unstable under discrete, low-dispersion rewards, where within-group reward distributions are frequently homogeneous. We identify and formalize three pathologies of z-score group normalization in this regime: low-variance amplification, mean-centering blindness, and zero-variance collapse. To address them, we propose MDP-GRPO, which stabilizes learning through (1) multi-temperature sampling to increase reward dispersion, (2) dual-anchor advantages to restore gradients in homogeneous groups and stop mean-centering blindness, (3) prospect-theoretic shaping to bound updates and penalize violations based on Kahneman and Tversky's theory, and (4) asymmetric KL regularization.