Critic Training Details and Stability
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-11
This part details the implementation of training a critic:
- To make the critic trainable, the authors froze the attention layers and only updated the MoE projections, as gradient explosions primarily originate from attention.
- The critic is updated twice per policy step.
- For multi-turn trajectories, they skip observation tokens in the GAE.
Overall, it explains how to handle numerical instabilities in value models and trajectories during agent/RL training.
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