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October 10, 2025Open Access

Principled and Tractable RL for Reasoning with Diffusion Language Models

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This research demonstrates the effectiveness of a newly developed RL algorithm in improving diffusion language models, suggesting a shift in optimizing non-autoregressive structures.

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AGRPO achieved up to +7.6% absolute gain on GSM8K and 3.8x performance on Countdown tasks, improving reasoning capabilities.
Using Monte Carlo sampling, AGRPO computes an unbiased policy gradient estimate, enabling effective adaptation for diffusion language models.
The proposed method showcases a principled approach to applying reinforcement learning in non-autoregressive models, differing from traditional techniques.
Performance gains were consistent across varying sampling steps in inference, highlighting better compute-performance tradeoffs.

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Anthony Zhan (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e90f526476c097794aa41d https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.04019

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This research demonstrates the effectiveness of a newly developed RL algorithm in improving diffusion language models, suggesting a shift in optimizing non-autoregressive structures.

Principled and Tractable RL for Reasoning with Diffusion Language Models

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