SIS Brings Off-Policy Tokens Back On-Policy
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-12
- This paper introduces SIS to solve the "reusing rollouts after the policy has changed" problem in LLM reinforcement learning.
- Instead of merely clipping the off-policy ratio, it performs per-token detection: if the current model would still sample the token, it's treated as on-policy; otherwise, standard correction applies.
- The author claims this reintegrates tokens previously deemed off-policy back into on-policy training.
- Integrating SIS into GRPO, DAPO, and GSPO yielded improvements in math tasks and agentic search, while stabilizing training under stale rollout and MoE mismatch scenarios.
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