Klear-Reasoner: Advancing Reasoning Capability via Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization
arxiv:2508.07629
Post-training · 2025-08-11
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Contents
- Klear-Reasoner: Advancing Reasoning Capability via Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminary
- 2.1 Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
- 2.2 Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)
- 2.3 Raise the Ceiling: Clip-Higher
- 2.4 Token-Level Policy Gradient Loss
- 3 Method
- 3.1 long Chain-of-Thought Supervised Fine-tuning
- 3.2 Reinforcement Learning
- 3.2.1 Data curation
- 3.2.2 Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization
- 3.2.3 RL Training with SFT Loss
- 3.2.4 Reward Design for Math and Code RL
- 4 Evaluation
- 4.1 Training Details
- 4.2 Benchmarks and Baselines
- 4.3 Evaluation Results
- 5 Analysis
- 5.1 SFT Analyses
- 5.1.1 Impact of data correctness
- 5.1.2 Ablation of teacher models
- 5.1.3 Data quality and diversity balance
- 5.2 RL Analyses
- 5.2.1 Effectiveness of Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization
- 5.2.2 Impact of SFT loss
- 5.2.3 Soft Reward vs. Hard Reward
- 5.2.4 Improving Code RL via Test Case Filtering
- 5.2.5 Impact of Zero-Advantage Sample Filtering
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix A Appendix
- A.1 CISPO Gradient Analysis
- A.2 The General Form of GPPO
- A.3 License for Scientific Artifacts
- Instructions for reporting errors