Adam Botach
2025
Group-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Output Diversity in Large Language Models
Oron Anschel
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Alon Shoshan
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Adam Botach
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Shunit Haviv Hakimi
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Asaf Gendler
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Emanuel Ben Baruch
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Nadav Bhonker
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Igor Kviatkovsky
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Manoj Aggarwal
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Gerard Medioni
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from mode collapse, repeatedly generating the same few completions even when many valid answers exist, limiting their diversity across a wide range of tasks. We introduce Group-Aware Policy Optimization (GAPO), a simple extension of the recent and popular Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) that computes rewards over the group as a whole. GAPO enables learning from the group-level properties such as diversity and coverage.We demonstrate GAPO using a frequency-aware reward function that encourages uniform sampling over valid LLM completions, and show that GAPO-trained models produce valid and more diverse model responses.Beyond this setup, GAPO generalizes to open-ended prompts and improves response diversity without compromising accuracy on standard LLM benchmarks (GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, MMLU-Pro). Our code will be made publicly available.
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