GRPO Struggles with Complex Agents; Suggests Mixing Off-Policy RL

nagpalchirag · x · 2026-08-16

The author argues that on-policy RL methods like GRPO cannot reach frontier performance during post-training of complex agentic orchestrations. It suggests integrating off-policy methods like Q-learning into GRPO-style algorithms to unlock maximum performance.

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