DeepSeek introduces GRPO (DeepSeekMath)

GRPO introduced (DeepSeekMath)

Why it matters

Group relative policy optimization without a value function later became the de facto standard for RL in reasoning models

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300

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