Technical breakdown: GRPO vs OPD PPO variants explained

bronzeagepapi · x · 2026-08-15

A technical discussion clarifies the difference between two actor-only PPO variants: GRPO uses a Monte Carlo group mean of a sparse verifier as its value function (V), while OPD uses a teacher policy's log-prob as its Q value.

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