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GIST: Gibbs-Targeted Hierarchical Data Selection for Offline RLVR
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- GIST is a data selection method for offline reinforcement learning that chooses which responses and tokens to supervise during training based on theoretical analysis of KL-regularized objectives.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers training language models on fixed datasets of sampled responses, especially when compute or annotation budget limits full supervision of all tokens.
- Watch out
- Method relies on approximating theoretical principles with signals available before training; practical gains depend on having good initial policy estimates and appropriate sampling temperatures.
- token
- reinforcement learning
- rlvr
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