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BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

Critic-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), avoids training a value function (critic) and reduces memory and compute overhead relative to critic-based PPO pipelines for aligning large language models. However, GRPO-style advantage estimation depends on prompt-local (within-prompt-group) reward statistics and can be unstable. In particular, when all rollouts in a prompt group receive identical rewards, the within-gro

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Published: 27 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (27 June 2026), “BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards,” evidence record 505, https://ethics.ai/record/505 (originally published by arXiv).

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