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"""
Core functions to implement PPO algorithms.
The function implemented in this file should be used by trainer with different distributed strategies to
implement PPO-like algorithms.
"""
__all__ = ["register_adv_est", "get_adv_estimator_fn", "AdvantageEstimator"]
from collections import defaultdict
from enum import Enum
import math
from typing import Any, Callable, Optional
import numpy as np
import torch
from omegaconf import DictConfig
import verl.utils.torch_functional as verl_F
from verl.trainer.config import AlgoConfig
from verl.utils import as_torch_index, group_mean_std
from verl.utils.import_utils import deprecated
from verl.workers.config import ActorConfig
PolicyLossFn = Callable[
[
torch.Tensor, # old_log_prob
torch.Tensor, # log_prob
torch.Tensor, # advantages
torch.Tensor, # response_mask
str, # loss_agg_mode
Optional[DictConfig | ActorConfig], # config
torch.Tensor | None, # rollout_log_probs
],
tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]],
]
POLICY_LOSS_REGISTRY: dict[str, PolicyLossFn] = {}
def register_policy_loss(name: str) -> Callable[[PolicyLossFn], PolicyLossFn]:
"""Register a policy loss function with the given name.
Args:
name (str): The name to register the policy loss function under.
Returns:
function: Decorator function that registers the policy loss function.
"""
def decorator(func: PolicyLossFn) -> PolicyLossFn:
POLICY_LOSS_REGISTRY[name] = func
return func
return decorator
def get_policy_loss_fn(name):
"""Get the policy loss with a given name.
Args:
name: `(str)`
The name of the policy loss.
Returns:
`(callable)`: The policy loss function.
"""
loss_name = name
if loss_name not in POLICY_LOSS_REGISTRY:
raise ValueError(
f"Unsupported loss mode: {loss_name}. Supported modes are: {list(POLICY_LOSS_REGISTRY.keys())}"
)
return POLICY_LOSS_REGISTRY[loss_name]
class AdvantageEstimator(str, Enum):
"""Using an enumeration class to avoid spelling errors in adv_estimator.
Note(haibin.lin): this enum class is immutable after creation. Extending this
enum for new estimators may not be necessary since users can always just call
`verl.trainer.ppo.core_algos.register` with string name for a custom advantage
estimator instead.
"""
GAE = "gae"
GRPO = "grpo"
REINFORCE_PLUS_PLUS = "reinforce_plus_plus"
REINFORCE_PLUS_PLUS_BASELINE = "reinforce_plus_plus_baseline"
REMAX = "remax"
RLOO = "rloo"
OPO = "opo"
GRPO_PASSK = "grpo_passk"
GPG = "gpg"
RLOO_VECTORIZED = "rloo_vectorized"
GRPO_VECTORIZED = "grpo_vectorized"
QAE = "QAE"
OPTIMAL_TOKEN_BASELINE = "optimal_token_baseline"
TIR_OPTIMAL_TOKEN_BASELINE = "tir_optimal_token_baseline"
GDPO = "gdpo"
ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY: dict[str, Any] = {}
def register_adv_est(name_or_enum: str | AdvantageEstimator) -> Any:
"""Decorator to register a advantage estimator function with a given name.
Args:
name_or_enum: `(str)` or `(AdvantageEstimator)`
The name or enum of the advantage estimator.
"""
def decorator(fn):
name = name_or_enum.value if isinstance(name_or_enum, Enum) else name_or_enum
if name in ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY and ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY[name] != fn:
raise ValueError(
f"Adv estimator {name} has already been registered: {ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY[name]} vs {fn}"
)
ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY[name] = fn
return fn
return decorator
def get_adv_estimator_fn(name_or_enum):
"""Get the advantage estimator function with a given name.
Args:
name_or_enum: `(str)` or `(AdvantageEstimator)`
The name or enum of the advantage estimator.
Returns:
`(callable)`: The advantage estimator function.
"""
name = name_or_enum.value if isinstance(name_or_enum, Enum) else name_or_enum
if name not in ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown advantage estimator simply: {name}")
return ADV_ESTIMATOR_REGISTRY[name]
class AdaptiveKLController:
"""
Adaptive KL controller described in the paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08593.pdf
"""
def __init__(self, init_kl_coef, target_kl, horizon):
self.value = init_kl_coef
self.target = target_kl
self.horizon = horizon
def update(self, current_kl, n_steps):
"""Update the KL coefficient based on current KL divergence.
Args:
current_kl (float): Current KL divergence value.
n_steps (int): Number of steps taken.
"""
target = self.target
proportional_error = np.clip(current_kl / target - 1, -0.2, 0.2)
mult = 1 + proportional_error * n_steps / self.horizon
self.value *= mult
class FixedKLController:
"""Fixed KL controller."""
def __init__(self, kl_coef):
self.value = kl_coef
def update(self, current_kl, n_steps):
"""Update method for fixed KL controller (no-op).
Args:
current_kl (float): Current KL divergence value (unused).
n_steps (int): Number of steps taken (unused).
"""
pass
def get_kl_controller(kl_ctrl):
"""Factory function to create appropriate KL controller based on configuration.
Args:
kl_ctrl: Configuration object containing KL controller settings.
Returns:
KL controller instance (FixedKLController or AdaptiveKLController).
Raises:
NotImplementedError: If controller type is not supported.
AssertionError: If adaptive controller horizon is not positive.
"""
if kl_ctrl.type == "fixed":
return FixedKLController(kl_coef=kl_ctrl.kl_coef)
elif kl_ctrl.type == "adaptive":
assert kl_ctrl.horizon > 0, f"horizon must be larger than 0. Got {kl_ctrl.horizon}"
return AdaptiveKLController(init_kl_coef=kl_ctrl.kl_coef, target_kl=kl_ctrl.target_kl, horizon=kl_ctrl.horizon)
else:
raise NotImplementedError
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GAE) # or simply: @register_adv_est("gae")
def compute_gae_advantage_return(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
values: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
gamma: torch.Tensor,
lam: torch.Tensor,
):
"""Adapted from https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/ppo_trainer.py
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
values: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length). [EOS] mask. The token after [EOS] have mask zero.
gamma is `(float)`
discounted factor used in RL
lam: `(float)`
lambda value when computing Generalized Advantage Estimation (https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02438)
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
with torch.no_grad():
nextvalues = 0
lastgaelam = 0
advantages_reversed = []
gen_len = token_level_rewards.shape[-1]
for t in reversed(range(gen_len)):
delta = token_level_rewards[:, t] + gamma * nextvalues - values[:, t]
lastgaelam_ = delta + gamma * lam * lastgaelam
# skip values and TD-error on observation tokens
nextvalues = values[:, t] * response_mask[:, t] + (1 - response_mask[:, t]) * nextvalues
lastgaelam = lastgaelam_ * response_mask[:, t] + (1 - response_mask[:, t]) * lastgaelam
advantages_reversed.append(lastgaelam)
advantages = torch.stack(advantages_reversed[::-1], dim=1)
returns = advantages + values
advantages = verl_F.masked_whiten(advantages, response_mask)
return advantages, returns
# NOTE(sgm): this implementation only consider outcome supervision, where the reward is a scalar.
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GRPO) # or simply: @register_adv_est("grpo")
def compute_grpo_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: bool = True,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for GRPO, operating only on Outcome reward
(with only one scalar reward for each response).
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
index: `(np.ndarray)`
index array for grouping
epsilon: `(float)`
small value to avoid division by zero
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: `(bool)`
whether to scale the GRPO advantage
config: `(Optional[AlgoConfig])`
algorithm configuration object
Note:
If norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo is True, the advantage is scaled by the std, as in the original GRPO.
If False, the advantage is not scaled, as in Dr.GRPO (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20783).
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape is (bs, response_length)
"""
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2mean = {}
id2std = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
for idx in id2score:
if len(id2score[idx]) == 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.tensor(0.0)
id2std[idx] = torch.tensor(1.0)
elif len(id2score[idx]) > 1:
scores_tensor = torch.stack(id2score[idx])
id2mean[idx] = torch.mean(scores_tensor)
id2std[idx] = torch.std(scores_tensor)
else:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
for i in range(bsz):
if norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo:
scores[i] = (scores[i] - id2mean[index[i]]) / (id2std[index[i]] + epsilon)
else:
scores[i] = scores[i] - id2mean[index[i]]
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return scores, scores
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GRPO_VECTORIZED)
def compute_grpo_vectorized_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: bool = True,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Vectorized GRPO(outcome-only):
For each group g:
a_i = \\frac{r_i - \\mu_g}{\\sigma_g} (or without dividing by \\sigma_g),
then broadcast the scalar across the token dimension (multiplied by response_mask).。
"""
with torch.no_grad():
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
g = as_torch_index(index, device=scores.device)
mean_g, std_g, _ = group_mean_std(scores, g, eps=epsilon, device=scores.device)
if norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo:
scalars = (scores - mean_g[g]) / (std_g[g] + epsilon)
else:
scalars = scores - mean_g[g]
advantages = scalars.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return advantages, advantages
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.QAE)
def compute_qae_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""Compute Quantile Advantage Estimation (QAE) for outcome-only rewards.
This implements Eq. 3 from Wu et al. (2026), using the right-continuous
empirical K-quantile as the group baseline. For binary rewards, this reduces
to the hard/easy query gate in Eq. 4. For general scalar outcome rewards, we
keep the paper's empirical quantile definition.
Args:
token_level_rewards: Token-level rewards of shape ``(bs, response_length)``.
response_mask: Response mask of shape ``(bs, response_length)``.
index: Group ids that map responses belonging to the same prompt.
epsilon: Small value to avoid division by zero.
config: Algorithm config. Supports:
- ``qae_quantile`` in ``(0, 1)``, defaults to ``0.4``.
- ``qae_norm_by_std``, defaults to ``True``.
Returns:
A tuple of ``(advantages, returns)`` with the same shape as ``response_mask``.
"""
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
quantile = config.get("qae_quantile", 0.4) if config is not None else 0.4
normalize_by_std = config.get("qae_norm_by_std", True) if config is not None else True
if not 0.0 < quantile < 1.0:
raise ValueError(f"QAE requires algorithm.qae_quantile to be in (0, 1). Got: {quantile}")
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2baseline = {}
id2std = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
for idx, grouped_scores in id2score.items():
if len(grouped_scores) == 0:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
scores_tensor = torch.stack(grouped_scores)
if len(grouped_scores) == 1:
# A singleton group has no relative ranking signal, so QAE should
# produce zero advantage for that sole response.
id2baseline[idx] = scores_tensor[0]
id2std[idx] = scores.new_tensor(1.0)
continue
sorted_scores = torch.sort(scores_tensor).values
quantile_rank = max(math.ceil(quantile * len(grouped_scores)) - 1, 0)
id2baseline[idx] = sorted_scores[quantile_rank]
id2std[idx] = torch.std(scores_tensor)
for i in range(bsz):
scores[i] = scores[i] - id2baseline[index[i]]
if normalize_by_std:
scores[i] = scores[i] / (id2std[index[i]] + epsilon)
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return scores, scores
register_adv_est("qae")(compute_qae_outcome_advantage)
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GDPO) # or simply: @register_adv_est("gdpo")
def compute_gdpo_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: bool = True,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
non_tensor_batch: Optional[dict] = None,
batch: Optional[dict] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization.
Instead of summing all reward dimensions first (like GRPO), GDPO normalizes
each reward dimension independently within each group before aggregation.
This prevents a dominant reward signal from drowning out weaker ones.
Mathematical formulation:
Step 1 – Group-wise decoupled normalization (via GRPO per dimension):
For each reward dimension k, within each group g:
A_k = (r_k - μ_group(r_k)) / (σ_group(r_k) + ε)
Step 2 – Weighted aggregation:
A_sum = Σ_k w_k · A_k
Step 3 – Batch-level normalization (via masked_whiten):
A_final = whiten(A_sum, response_mask)
Args:
token_level_rewards: (bs, response_length) – standard token-level rewards.
Used as fallback when per-dimension rewards are not provided.
response_mask: (bs, response_length)
index: (bs,) – group id per sample (from ``uid``).
epsilon: Numerical stability constant.
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: Whether to normalize by std in GRPO.
config: Algorithm configuration (optional).
non_tensor_batch: Non-tensor batch data containing per-dimension reward scores.
batch: Batch data containing prompts, attention_mask, etc.
Note:
Ref GDPO (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05242).
Returns:
advantages: (bs, response_length)
returns: (bs, response_length) – same as advantages (outcome-only).
"""
score_list = None
reward_weights = None
if config is not None and non_tensor_batch is not None and batch is not None:
gdpo_reward_keys = config.get("gdpo_reward_keys", None)
assert gdpo_reward_keys, (
"GDPO requires 'algorithm.gdpo_reward_keys' listing the individual reward "
"component keys returned by compute_score (e.g. ['format_reward', 'accuracy_reward'])."
)
device = token_level_rewards.device
prompt_length = batch["prompts"].size(1)
valid_response_length = batch["attention_mask"][:, prompt_length:].sum(dim=1) - 1
score_list = []
for key in gdpo_reward_keys:
assert key in non_tensor_batch, (
f"GDPO reward key '{key}' not found in non_tensor_batch. "
f"Available keys: {list(non_tensor_batch.keys())}. "
f"Make sure your compute_score returns a dict containing '{key}'."
)
comp = non_tensor_batch[key]
rm_score = torch.tensor(np.asarray(comp, dtype=np.float32), device=device)
rm_scores = torch.zeros_like(response_mask, dtype=torch.float32)
rm_scores[torch.arange(rm_scores.size(0), device=device), valid_response_length] = rm_score
score_list.append(rm_scores)
gdpo_weights = config.get("gdpo_reward_weights", None)
if gdpo_weights is not None:
reward_weights = list(gdpo_weights)
if score_list is None:
score_list = [token_level_rewards]
num_scores = len(score_list)
if reward_weights is not None:
weights = torch.tensor(reward_weights, dtype=torch.float32, device=token_level_rewards.device)
else:
weights = torch.ones(num_scores, dtype=torch.float32, device=token_level_rewards.device)
new_advantage = None
for i in range(num_scores):
normalized_score, _ = compute_grpo_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards=score_list[i],
response_mask=response_mask,
index=index,
epsilon=epsilon,
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo=norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo,
config=config,
)
if new_advantage is None:
new_advantage = weights[i] * normalized_score
else:
new_advantage += weights[i] * normalized_score
advantages = verl_F.masked_whiten(new_advantage, response_mask) * response_mask
return advantages, advantages
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GRPO_PASSK) # or simply: @register_adv_est("grpo_passk")
def compute_grpo_passk_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo: bool = True,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for Pass@k using a GRPO-style outcome reward formulation.
Only the best response per group gets a non-zero advantage: r_max - r_second_max.
Implemented as described in https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19595.
Args:
token_level_rewards: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: (bs, response_length)
index: (bs,) → group ID per sample
epsilon: float for numerical stability
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm settings, which contains "norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo"
Returns:
advantages: (bs, response_length)
returns: (bs, response_length)
"""
assert config is not None
# if True, normalize advantage by std within group
norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo = config.get("norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo", True)
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1) # (bs,)
advantages = torch.zeros_like(scores)
id2scores = defaultdict(list)
id2indices = defaultdict(list)
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
idx = index[i]
id2scores[idx].append(scores[i])
id2indices[idx].append(i)
for idx in id2scores:
rewards = torch.stack(id2scores[idx]) # (k,)
if rewards.numel() < 2:
raise ValueError(
f"Pass@k requires at least 2 samples per group. Got {rewards.numel()} for group {idx}."
)
topk, topk_idx = torch.topk(rewards, 2)
r_max, r_second_max = topk[0], topk[1]
i_max = id2indices[idx][topk_idx[0].item()]
advantage = r_max - r_second_max
if norm_adv_by_std_in_grpo:
std = torch.std(rewards)
advantage = advantage / (std + epsilon)
advantages[i_max] = advantage
advantages = advantages.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return advantages, advantages
@register_adv_est(
AdvantageEstimator.REINFORCE_PLUS_PLUS_BASELINE
) # or simply: @register_adv_est("reinforce_plus_plus_baseline")
def compute_reinforce_plus_plus_baseline_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: torch.Tensor,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for RF++-baseline (https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03262), operating only on Outcome reward
(with only one scalar reward for each response).
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
response_length = token_level_rewards.shape[-1]
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2mean = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
for idx in id2score:
if len(id2score[idx]) == 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.tensor(0.0)
elif len(id2score[idx]) > 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.mean(torch.stack(id2score[idx]))
else:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
for i in range(bsz):
scores[i] = scores[i] - id2mean[index[i]]
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1).tile([1, response_length]) * response_mask
scores = verl_F.masked_whiten(scores, response_mask) * response_mask
return scores, scores
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.RLOO) # or simply: @register_adv_est("rloo")
def compute_rloo_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for RLOO based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14740
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2mean = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
for idx in id2score:
if len(id2score[idx]) == 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.tensor(0.0)
elif len(id2score[idx]) > 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.mean(torch.stack(id2score[idx]))
else:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
for i in range(bsz):
response_num = len(id2score[index[i]])
if response_num > 1:
scores[i] = scores[i] * response_num / (response_num - 1) - id2mean[index[i]] * response_num / (
response_num - 1
)
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return scores, scores
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.OPO) # or simply: @register_adv_est("opo")
def compute_opo_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for OPO based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23585
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
response_length = response_mask.sum(dim=-1)
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2len = defaultdict(list)
id2bsl = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
id2len[index[i]].append(response_length[i])
for idx in id2score:
if len(id2score[idx]) == 1:
id2bsl[idx] = torch.tensor(0.0)
elif len(id2score[idx]) > 1:
score_tensor = torch.stack(id2score[idx])
len_tensor = torch.stack(id2len[idx])
id2bsl[idx] = (len_tensor * score_tensor).sum() / len_tensor.sum()
else:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
for i in range(bsz):
scores[i] = scores[i] - id2bsl[index[i]]
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return scores, scores
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.REINFORCE_PLUS_PLUS) # or simply: @register_adv_est("reinforce_plus_plus")
def compute_reinforce_plus_plus_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor, response_mask: torch.Tensor, config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None, **kwargs
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for REINFORCE++.
This implementation is based on the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03262
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
assert config is not None
gamma = config.gamma
with torch.no_grad():
returns = torch.zeros_like(token_level_rewards)
running_return = 0
for t in reversed(range(token_level_rewards.shape[1])):
running_return = token_level_rewards[:, t] + gamma * running_return
returns[:, t] = running_return
# Reset after EOS
running_return = running_return * response_mask[:, t]
advantages = verl_F.masked_whiten(returns, response_mask)
advantages = advantages * response_mask
return advantages, returns
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.REMAX) # or simply: @register_adv_est("remax")
def compute_remax_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
reward_baselines: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for ReMax, operating only on Outcome reward
This implementation is based on the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10505
(with only one scalar reward for each response).
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
reward_baselines: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs,)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
with torch.no_grad():
returns = (token_level_rewards * response_mask).flip(dims=[-1]).cumsum(dim=-1).flip(dims=[-1])
advantages = returns - reward_baselines.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return advantages, returns
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.GPG) # or simply: @register_adv_est("gpg")
def compute_gpg_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
f_norm: float = 1.0,
alpha: float = 1.0,
config=None,
**kwargs,
):
"""
Compute advantage for GPG, operating only on Outcome reward
(with only one scalar reward for each response).
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
index: `(np.ndarray)`
shape: (bs,)
epsilon: (float)
f_norm: (float)
alpha: (float)
config: (dict) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
id2score = defaultdict(list)
id2mean = {}
id2std = {}
with torch.no_grad():
bsz = scores.shape[0]
m = torch.count_nonzero(scores)
alpha = bsz / m.clamp(min=1)
for i in range(bsz):
id2score[index[i]].append(scores[i])
for idx in id2score:
if len(id2score[idx]) == 1:
id2mean[idx] = torch.tensor(0.0)
id2std[idx] = torch.tensor(1.0)
elif len(id2score[idx]) > 1:
scores_tensor = torch.stack(id2score[idx])
id2mean[idx] = torch.mean(scores_tensor)
id2std[idx] = torch.std(scores_tensor)
else:
raise ValueError(f"no score in prompt index: {idx}")
for i in range(bsz):
scores[i] = alpha * (scores[i] - id2mean[index[i]]) / (f_norm)
scores = scores.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return scores, scores
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.RLOO_VECTORIZED) # or simply: @register_adv_est("rloo_vectorized")
def compute_rloo_vectorized_outcome_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
epsilon: float = 1e-6,
config: Optional[AlgoConfig] = None,
**kwargs,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantage for RLOO based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14740
Args:
token_level_rewards: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
config: (AlgoConfig) algorithm config
Returns:
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
Returns: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
"""
scores = token_level_rewards.sum(dim=-1)
with torch.no_grad():
inv = torch.from_numpy(np.unique(index, return_inverse=True)[1]).to(scores.device)
c = torch.bincount(inv)[inv].to(scores.dtype)
adv = ((c * scores - torch.bincount(inv, weights=scores)[inv]) / (c - 1).clamp_min(1)) * (c > 1)
adv = adv.unsqueeze(-1) * response_mask
return adv, adv
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.OPTIMAL_TOKEN_BASELINE)
def compute_optimal_token_baseline_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
old_log_probs: torch.Tensor,
sum_pi_squared: torch.Tensor,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor = None,
handle_zero_tail: bool = True,
epsilon: float = 1e-8,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantages using Optimal Token Baseline (OTB).
Unlike the group mean based baseline which uses a single baseline per trajectory,
this computes a unique baseline for each timestep using cumulative path variance.
Theory:
For each timestep t in each prompt group:
B_t* = E[G_t × W_t] / E[W_t]
where W_t = Σ_{j=1}^t ||s_j||² (cumulative path-variance proxy)
and ||s_j||² = 1 - 2π_j + Σπ²
The cumulative sum W_t captures the "realized energy" of trajectory has been up to timestep t,
giving higher weight to predicting rewards on high-variance paths.
Args:
token_level_rewards: Rewards at each token position [shape: (bs, response_length)]
response_mask: Binary mask for valid tokens (1) vs padding (0) [shape: (bs, response_length)]
index: Prompt indices for grouping trajectories from same prompt [shape: (bs,)]
old_log_probs: Log probabilities from training policy during generation [shape: (bs, response_length)]
sum_pi_squared: Sum of squared probabilities over vocabulary Σπ² [shape: (bs, response_length)]
rollout_is_weights: Pre-computed IS weights for W correction [shape: (bs, response_length)],
None if not using IS
handle_zero_tail: If True, zero baselines will be set in the portion of the longest trajectory
that extends beyond the second-longest trajectory in the prompt group.
Default: True
epsilon: Small constant for numerical stability (default: 1e-8)
Returns:
advantages: OTB advantage estimates [shape: (bs, response_length)]
returns: Cumulative rewards (returns) from each position [shape: (bs, response_length)]
Note on Rollout Importance Sampling:
When rollout_is_weights is provided, W_t is scaled by ρ̄²(t) to minimize MSE under truncated IS:
B_t* = Σ[G_t × ρ̄²(t) × W_t] / Σ[ρ̄²(t) × W_t]
"""
with torch.no_grad():
batch_size, seq_len = token_level_rewards.shape
device = token_level_rewards.device
# Compute returns (reward-to-go) for each timestep
returns = (token_level_rewards * response_mask).flip(dims=[-1]).cumsum(dim=-1).flip(dims=[-1])
# Step 1: Compute w_per_timestep = 1 - 2π_t + Σπ²)
pi_t = torch.exp(old_log_probs)
w_per_timestep = 1 - 2 * pi_t + sum_pi_squared
# Step 2: Apply rollout importance sampling correction (if enabled)
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
# Scale W by ρ̄² to minimize MSE under truncated IS
w_per_timestep = w_per_timestep * (rollout_is_weights**2)
# Step 3: Compute cumulative path-variance proxy: W_t = Σ_{j=1}^t w_j
# This measures accumulated variance from the start of the trajectory up to timestep t
w_cumulative = (w_per_timestep * response_mask).cumsum(dim=-1)
# Group trajectories by prompt
prompt_groups = defaultdict(list)
for i in range(batch_size):
prompt_groups[index[i]].append(i)
# Initialize baselines tensor [batch_size, seq_len]
baselines = torch.zeros_like(returns)
# Compute per-step baseline for each prompt group
for _, trajectory_indices in prompt_groups.items():
N = len(trajectory_indices)
if N == 1:
# Single trajectory - no baseline (advantage = return)
continue
traj_idx = torch.tensor(trajectory_indices, device=device)
# Extract group data [N, seq_len]
returns_group = returns[traj_idx]
w_cumulative_group = w_cumulative[traj_idx]
mask_group = response_mask[traj_idx]
# Compute per-timestep baseline: B_t = Σ[G_t × W_t] / Σ[W_t]
# where W_t = Σ_{j=1}^t ||s_j||² (cumulative path variance)
# Shape: [seq_len]
numerator = (returns_group * w_cumulative_group * mask_group).sum(dim=0) # Sum over trajectories
denominator = (w_cumulative_group * mask_group).sum(dim=0) + epsilon
baseline_per_step = numerator / denominator # [seq_len]
# Assign to all trajectories in this group
baselines[traj_idx] = baseline_per_step.unsqueeze(0).expand(N, -1)
if handle_zero_tail:
# Optionally zero out the portion of the longest trajectory that extends
# beyond the second-longest trajectory in the prompt group.
response_lengths = mask_group.sum(dim=-1)
sorted_lengths, _ = torch.sort(response_lengths)
max_length = int(sorted_lengths[-1].item())
second_max_length = int(sorted_lengths[-2].item())
max_length_idx = (response_lengths == max_length).nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]
if max_length_idx.numel() == 1 and max_length > second_max_length:
max_length_traj_idx = trajectory_indices[int(max_length_idx[0])]
baselines[max_length_traj_idx, second_max_length:] = 0.0
# Compute advantages: A_t = G_t - B_t
advantages = (returns - baselines) * response_mask
return advantages, returns
@register_adv_est(AdvantageEstimator.TIR_OPTIMAL_TOKEN_BASELINE)
def compute_multi_turn_optimal_token_baseline_advantage(
token_level_rewards: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
index: np.ndarray,
old_log_probs: torch.Tensor,
sum_pi_squared: torch.Tensor,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor = None,
handle_zero_tail: bool = True,
epsilon: float = 1e-8,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute advantages using Optimal Token Baseline (OTB).
Unlike the group mean based baseline which uses a single baseline per trajectory,
this computes a unique baseline for each timestep using cumulative path variance.
Theory:
For each timestep t in each prompt group:
B_t* = E[G_t × W_t] / E[W_t]
where W_t = Σ_{j=1}^t ||s_j||² (cumulative path-variance proxy)
and ||s_j||² = 1 - 2π_j + Σπ²
The cumulative sum W_t captures the "realized energy" of trajectory has been up to timestep t,
giving higher weight to predicting rewards on high-variance paths.
Args:
token_level_rewards: Rewards at each token position [shape: (bs, response_length)]
response_mask: Binary mask for valid tokens (1) vs padding (0) [shape: (bs, response_length)]
index: Prompt indices for grouping trajectories from same prompt [shape: (bs,)]
old_log_probs: Log probabilities from training policy during generation [shape: (bs, response_length)]
sum_pi_squared: Sum of squared probabilities over vocabulary Σπ² [shape: (bs, response_length)]
rollout_is_weights: Pre-computed IS weights for W correction [shape: (bs, response_length)],
None if not using IS
handle_zero_tail: If True, zero baselines will be set in the portion of the longest trajectory
that extends beyond the second-longest trajectory in the prompt group.
Default: False
epsilon: Small constant for numerical stability (default: 1e-8)
Returns:
advantages: OTB advantage estimates [shape: (bs, response_length)]
returns: Cumulative rewards (returns) from each position [shape: (bs, response_length)]
Note on Rollout Importance Sampling:
When rollout_is_weights is provided, W_t is scaled by ρ̄²(t) to minimize MSE under truncated IS:
B_t* = Σ[G_t × ρ̄²(t) × W_t] / Σ[ρ̄²(t) × W_t]
"""
with torch.no_grad():
# Compute returns (reward-to-go) for each timestep
token_returns = (token_level_rewards * response_mask).flip(dims=[-1]).cumsum(dim=-1).flip(dims=[-1])
# Step 1: Compute w_per_timestep = 1 - 2π_t + Σπ²)
pi_t = torch.exp(old_log_probs)
w_per_timestep = 1 - 2 * pi_t + sum_pi_squared
# Step 2: Apply rollout importance sampling correction (if enabled)
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
# Scale W by ρ̄² to minimize MSE under truncated IS
w_per_timestep = w_per_timestep * (rollout_is_weights**2)
# Step 3: Compute cumulative path-variance proxy: W_t = Σ_{j=1}^t w_j
# This measures accumulated variance from the start of the trajectory up to timestep t
w_cumulative = (w_per_timestep * response_mask).cumsum(dim=-1)
# Step 4: Concatenate returns and w_cumulative for each trajectory
# This allows us to compute baseline per timestep for each trajectory
response_lengths = response_mask.sum(dim=-1).to(dtype=torch.long) # [shape: (bs * n, )]
max_response_length = int(response_lengths.max().item()) if response_lengths.numel() > 0 else 0
all_w_values = w_cumulative.new_zeros(
(len(response_lengths), max_response_length)
) # [shape: (bs * n, max_response_length)]
all_returns = torch.zeros_like(all_w_values)
for i in range(len(response_lengths)):
length = int(response_lengths[i].item())
if length == 0:
continue
mask = response_mask[i].bool()
all_w_values[i, :length] = w_cumulative[i, mask]
all_returns[i, :length] = token_returns[i, mask]
# Group trajectories by prompt
prompt_groups = defaultdict(list)
for i in range(len(response_lengths)):
if response_lengths[i] == 0:
continue
prompt_groups[index[i]].append(i)
# Compute optimal baseline for each prompt group
baselines = torch.zeros_like(all_returns)
for _, trajectory_indices in prompt_groups.items():
N = len(trajectory_indices)
traj_idx = torch.tensor(trajectory_indices, device=all_returns.device)
if N == 1:
# Single trajectory - no baseline (keep original reward as advantage)
baselines[traj_idx[0]] = 0.0
continue
# Extract group data
w_group = all_w_values[traj_idx] # [shape: (N, max_response_length)]
R_group = all_returns[traj_idx] # [shape: (N, max_response_length)]
# Direct optimal baseline - single value for all in group
b_star = (R_group * w_group).sum(dim=0) / (w_group.sum(dim=0) + epsilon)
# Convert to match baselines dtype (epsilon can cause float64 promotion)
baselines[traj_idx] = b_star.to(baselines.dtype)
if handle_zero_tail:
# Optionally zero out the portion of the longest trajectory that extends
# beyond the second-longest trajectory in the prompt group.
response_lengths_group = response_lengths[traj_idx]
sorted_lengths, _ = torch.sort(response_lengths_group)
max_length = int(sorted_lengths[-1].item())
second_max_length = int(sorted_lengths[-2].item())
max_length_idx = (response_lengths_group == max_length).nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]
if max_length_idx.numel() == 1 and max_length > second_max_length:
max_length_traj_idx = trajectory_indices[int(max_length_idx[0])]
baselines[max_length_traj_idx, second_max_length:] = 0.0
# Compute advantages
all_advantages = all_returns - baselines # [shape: (bs * n, max_response_length)]
advantages = torch.zeros_like(token_returns) # [shape: (bs * n, turn * response_length)]
for i in range(len(response_lengths)):
if response_lengths[i] == 0:
continue
advantages[i, response_mask[i].bool()] = all_advantages[i, : response_lengths[i]]
advantages = advantages * response_mask # [shape: (bs * n * turn, response_length)]
return advantages, token_returns
def compute_rewards(token_level_scores, old_log_prob, ref_log_prob, kl_ratio):
"""Compute token-level rewards with KL penalty.
Args:
token_level_scores (torch.Tensor): Token-level reward scores.
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor): Log probabilities from current policy.
ref_log_prob (torch.Tensor): Log probabilities from reference policy.
kl_ratio (float): KL penalty coefficient.
Returns:
torch.Tensor: Token-level rewards with KL penalty applied.
"""
kl = old_log_prob - ref_log_prob
return token_level_scores - kl * kl_ratio
def agg_loss(
loss_mat: torch.Tensor,
loss_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str,
dp_size: int = 1,
batch_num_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
global_batch_size: Optional[int] = None,
loss_scale_factor: Optional[int] = None,
):
"""
Aggregate the loss across global batch to ensure the loss is invariant to fsdp/megatron parallelism.
NOTE: The returned loss has different behaviors for different backend:
- FSDP: the loss is directly used for backward.
- Megatron: the loss should be scaled by `num_microbatches` and `cp_size` for pp schedule.
Args:
loss_mat: micro batch loss matrix, (bs, response_length)
loss_mask: micro batch loss mask, (bs, response_length)
loss_agg_mode: method to aggregate the loss matrix into a scalar
dp_size: data parallel size
batch_num_tokens: number of valid tokens in global batch
global_batch_size: global batch size
loss_scale_factor: scale factor for "seq-mean-token-sum-norm" mode. If None, uses loss_mask.shape[-1].
Set this to a constant value to ensure consistent normalization throughout training.
Returns:
loss: `a scalar torch.Tensor`
aggregated loss
"""
if loss_agg_mode == "token-mean":
if batch_num_tokens is None:
if dp_size > 1:
raise ValueError("(global) batch_num_tokens is required when dp_size > 1")
batch_num_tokens = loss_mask.sum()
loss = verl_F.masked_sum(loss_mat, loss_mask) / batch_num_tokens * dp_size
elif loss_agg_mode in ["seq-mean-token-sum", "seq-mean-token-sum-norm"]:
seq_losses = torch.sum(loss_mat * loss_mask, dim=-1) # token-sum
seq_mask = (torch.sum(loss_mask, dim=-1) > 0).float() # exclude fully masked sequences
if global_batch_size is None:
if dp_size > 1:
raise ValueError("global_batch_size is required when dp_size > 1")
global_batch_size = seq_mask.sum()
loss = verl_F.masked_sum(seq_losses, seq_mask) / global_batch_size * dp_size # seq-mean
if loss_agg_mode == "seq-mean-token-sum-norm":
if loss_scale_factor is None:
horizon = loss_mask.shape[-1]
loss_scale_factor = horizon
loss /= loss_scale_factor
elif loss_agg_mode == "seq-mean-token-mean":
seq_mask = torch.sum(loss_mask, dim=-1) # per-sequence token count
seq_losses = torch.sum(loss_mat * loss_mask, dim=-1) / (seq_mask + 1e-8) # token-mean
seq_mask = (seq_mask > 0).float() # exclude fully masked sequences
if global_batch_size is None:
if dp_size > 1:
raise ValueError("global_batch_size is required when dp_size > 1")
global_batch_size = seq_mask.sum()
loss = verl_F.masked_sum(seq_losses, seq_mask) / global_batch_size * dp_size # seq-mean
else:
raise ValueError(f"Invalid loss_agg_mode: {loss_agg_mode}")
return loss
@deprecated("verl.trainer.ppo.core_algos.compute_policy_loss_vanilla")
def compute_policy_loss(
old_log_prob,
log_prob,
advantages,
response_mask,
cliprange=None,
cliprange_low=None,
cliprange_high=None,
clip_ratio_c=3.0,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
):
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for PPO.
Adapted from
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/ppo_trainer.py#L1122
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
cliprange (float, optional):
Clipping parameter ε for standard PPO. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347.
Defaults to None (must be provided).
cliprange_low (float, optional):
Lower clip range for dual-clip PPO. Defaults to same as `cliprange`.
cliprange_high (float, optional):
Upper clip range for dual-clip PPO. Defaults to same as `cliprange`.
clip_ratio_c (float, optional):
Lower bound of the ratio for dual-clip PPO. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09729.
Defaults to 3.0.
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
"""
assert clip_ratio_c > 1.0, (
"The lower bound of the clip_ratio_c for dual-clip PPO should be greater than 1.0,"
+ f" but get the value: {clip_ratio_c}."
)
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
pg_losses1 = -advantages * ratio
if cliprange_low is None:
cliprange_low = cliprange
if cliprange_high is None:
cliprange_high = cliprange
pg_losses2 = -advantages * torch.clamp(
ratio, 1 - cliprange_low, 1 + cliprange_high
) # - clip(ratio, 1-cliprange, 1+cliprange) * A
clip_pg_losses1 = torch.maximum(
pg_losses1, pg_losses2
) # max(-ratio * A, -clip(ratio, 1-cliprange, 1+cliprange) * A)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean(torch.gt(pg_losses2, pg_losses1).float(), response_mask)
pg_losses3 = -advantages * clip_ratio_c
clip_pg_losses2 = torch.min(pg_losses3, clip_pg_losses1)
pg_clipfrac_lower = verl_F.masked_mean(
torch.gt(clip_pg_losses1, pg_losses3) * (advantages < 0).float(), response_mask
)
pg_losses = torch.where(advantages < 0, clip_pg_losses2, clip_pg_losses1)
pg_loss = agg_loss(loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode)
return pg_loss, pg_clipfrac, ppo_kl, pg_clipfrac_lower
@register_policy_loss("vanilla") # type: ignore[arg-type]
def compute_policy_loss_vanilla(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for PPO.
Adapted from
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/ppo_trainer.py#L1122
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
config: `(verl.trainer.config.ActorConfig)`:
config for the actor.
rollout_log_probs: `(torch.Tensor)`:
log probabilities of actions under the rollout policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig)
clip_ratio = config.clip_ratio # Clipping parameter ε for standard PPO. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347.
clip_ratio_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else clip_ratio
clip_ratio_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else clip_ratio
clip_ratio_c = config.get( # Lower bound of the ratio for dual-clip PPO. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09729.
"clip_ratio_c", 3.0
)
cliprange = clip_ratio
cliprange_low = clip_ratio_low
cliprange_high = clip_ratio_high
assert clip_ratio_c > 1.0, (
"The lower bound of the clip_ratio_c for dual-clip PPO should be greater than 1.0,"
+ f" but get the value: {clip_ratio_c}."
)
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
pg_losses1 = -advantages * ratio
if cliprange_low is None:
cliprange_low = cliprange
if cliprange_high is None:
cliprange_high = cliprange
pg_losses2 = -advantages * torch.clamp(
ratio, 1 - cliprange_low, 1 + cliprange_high
) # - clip(ratio, 1-cliprange, 1+cliprange) * A
clip_pg_losses1 = torch.maximum(
pg_losses1, pg_losses2
) # max(-ratio * A, -clip(ratio, 1-cliprange, 1+cliprange) * A)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean(torch.gt(pg_losses2, pg_losses1).float(), response_mask)
pg_losses3 = -advantages * clip_ratio_c
clip_pg_losses2 = torch.min(pg_losses3, clip_pg_losses1)
pg_clipfrac_lower = verl_F.masked_mean(
torch.gt(clip_pg_losses1, pg_losses3) * (advantages < 0).float(), response_mask
)
pg_losses = torch.where(advantages < 0, clip_pg_losses2, clip_pg_losses1)
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("dppo_tv")
def compute_policy_loss_dppo_tv(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for DPPO-Binary-TV.
See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04879 for more details.
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
config: `(verl.trainer.config.ActorConfig)`:
config for the actor.
rollout_log_probs: `(torch.Tensor)`:
log probabilities of actions under the rollout policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig)
# Note: the clip_ratio is different from the standard PPO, it is the TV divergence threshold for DPPO.
clip_divergence = config.clip_ratio
clip_divergence_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else clip_divergence
clip_divergence_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else clip_divergence
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
# Instead of dual-clip PPO, we use truncated importance sampling (TIS) to clip the policy loss.
# However, a large threshold is recommended to avoid performance degradation due to the truncation bias.
# See Section 5.4 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04879 for more details.
clip_ratio_c = config.get("clip_ratio_c", 20.0)
truncated_ratio = torch.clamp(ratio, max=clip_ratio_c)
truncated_ratio = truncated_ratio.detach()
# Compute valid mask for DPPO-Binary-TV
prob = torch.exp(log_prob)
old_prob = torch.exp(old_log_prob)
valid_positive_mask = (prob - old_prob) <= clip_divergence_high
valid_negative_mask = (prob - old_prob) >= -clip_divergence_low
valid_mask = torch.where(advantages > 0, valid_positive_mask, valid_negative_mask)
valid_mask = valid_mask.detach().float()
pg_losses = -advantages * truncated_ratio * log_prob * valid_mask
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean((1.0 - valid_mask).float(), response_mask)
pg_clipfrac_lower = verl_F.masked_mean((ratio > clip_ratio_c).float() * valid_mask, response_mask)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("dppo_kl")
def compute_policy_loss_dppo_kl(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for DPPO-Binary-KL.
See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04879 for more details.
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
config: `(verl.trainer.config.ActorConfig)`:
config for the actor.
rollout_log_probs: `(torch.Tensor)`:
log probabilities of actions under the rollout policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig)
# Note: the clip_ratio is different from the standard PPO, it is the KL divergence threshold for DPPO.
clip_divergence = config.clip_ratio
clip_divergence_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else clip_divergence
clip_divergence_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else clip_divergence
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
# Instead of dual-clip PPO, we use truncated importance sampling (TIS) to clip the policy loss.
# However, a large threshold is recommended to avoid performance degradation due to the truncation bias.
# See Section 5.4 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04879 for more details.
clip_ratio_c = config.get("clip_ratio_c", 20.0)
truncated_ratio = torch.clamp(ratio, max=clip_ratio_c)
truncated_ratio = truncated_ratio.detach()
# Compute valid mask for DPPO-Binary-KL
prob = torch.exp(log_prob)
old_prob = torch.exp(old_log_prob)
binary_kl = old_prob * (old_log_prob - log_prob) + (1 - old_prob) * torch.log(
(1.0 - old_prob + 1e-8) / (1.0 - prob + 1e-8)
)
valid_positive_mask = (binary_kl <= clip_divergence_high) | (prob <= old_prob)
valid_negative_mask = (binary_kl <= clip_divergence_low) | (prob >= old_prob)
valid_mask = torch.where(advantages > 0, valid_positive_mask, valid_negative_mask)
valid_mask = valid_mask.detach().float()
pg_losses = -advantages * truncated_ratio * log_prob * valid_mask
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
# For compatibility, return zero for pg_clipfrac_lower (not used in standard DPPO)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean((1.0 - valid_mask).float(), response_mask)
pg_clipfrac_lower = verl_F.masked_mean((ratio > clip_ratio_c).float() * valid_mask, response_mask)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("gspo")
def compute_policy_loss_gspo(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "seq-mean-token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for GSPO.
See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18071 for more details.
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. For GSPO, it is recommended to use "seq-mean-token-mean".
"""
assert config is not None
assert isinstance(config, ActorConfig)
clip_ratio_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else config.clip_ratio
clip_ratio_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else config.clip_ratio
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# compute sequence-level importance ratio:
# si(θ) = (π_θ(yi|x)/π_θold(yi|x))^(1/|yi|) =
# exp [(1/|y_i|) * Σ_t log(π_θ(y_i,t|x,y_i,<t)/π_θold(y_i,t|x,y_i,<t))]
seq_lengths = torch.sum(response_mask, dim=-1).clamp(min=1)
negative_approx_kl_seq = torch.sum(negative_approx_kl * response_mask, dim=-1) / seq_lengths
# Combined ratio at token level:
# s_i,t(θ) = sg[s_i(θ)] · π_θ(y_i,t|x, y_i,<t) / sg[π_θ(y_i,t|x, y_i,<t)]
# In log space: log(s_i,t(θ)) = sg[log(s_i(θ))] + log_prob - sg[log_prob]
log_seq_importance_ratio = log_prob - log_prob.detach() + negative_approx_kl_seq.detach().unsqueeze(-1)
log_seq_importance_ratio = torch.clamp(log_seq_importance_ratio, max=10.0) # clamp for numerical stability
# finaly exp() to remove log
seq_importance_ratio = torch.exp(log_seq_importance_ratio)
pg_losses1 = -advantages * seq_importance_ratio
pg_losses2 = -advantages * torch.clamp(seq_importance_ratio, 1 - clip_ratio_low, 1 + clip_ratio_high)
pg_losses = torch.maximum(pg_losses1, pg_losses2)
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
# for GSPO, we need to aggregate the loss at the sequence level (seq-mean-token-mean)
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode="seq-mean-token-mean", **config.global_batch_info
)
# For compatibility, return zero for pg_clipfrac_lower (not used in standard GSPO)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean(torch.gt(pg_losses2, pg_losses1).float(), response_mask)
pg_clipfrac_lower = torch.tensor(0.0, device=pg_loss.device)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("sapo")
def compute_policy_loss_sapo(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "seq-mean-token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the smoothed policy objective and related metrics for SAPO.
See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.20347 for more details.
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. For SAPO, it is recommended to use "seq-mean-token-mean".
"""
assert config is not None
assert isinstance(config, ActorConfig)
# temperature for positive and negative token updates
tau_pos = torch.as_tensor(config.tau_pos, dtype=advantages.dtype, device=advantages.device)
tau_neg = torch.as_tensor(config.tau_neg, dtype=advantages.dtype, device=advantages.device)
def gate_function(x, tau):
"""The gating function used in SAPO"""
return torch.sigmoid(tau * (x - 1.0)) * (4.0 / tau)
# compute IS at token level:
# r_{i,t}(θ) = π_θ(y_{i,t}|x, y_{i,<t}) / π_θold(y_{i,t}|x, y_{i,<t})]
# In log space: log(r_{i,t}(θ)) = log_prob - ol_log_prob
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
# finally exp() to remove log and get r_{i,t}(θ)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
# tau_{i,t} is tau_pos if adv > 0 else tau_neg
taus = torch.where(
condition=advantages > 0,
input=tau_pos, # if A_{i,t} > 0 we set to tau_pos
other=tau_neg, # if A_{i,t} <= 0 we set to tau_neg
)
# compute the gates f_{i,t}(r_{i,t}(θ)) at token level
gates = gate_function(ratio, taus)
# compute policy gradient loss
pg_losses = -gates * advantages
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
# for SAPO, we need to aggregate the loss at the sequence level (seq-mean-token-mean)
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode="seq-mean-token-mean", **config.global_batch_info
)
# For compatibility, return zero for both pg_clipfrac and pg_clipfrac_lower (not used in SAPO)
pg_clipfrac = torch.tensor(0.0, device=pg_loss.device)
pg_clipfrac_lower = torch.tensor(0.0, device=pg_loss.device)
# compute KL for metrics tracking
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
# return metrics dict
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("gpg")
def compute_policy_loss_gpg(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""Adapted from
https://github.com/AMAP-ML/GPG/blob/main/VisualThinker-R1-Zero/src/open-r1-multimodal/src/open_r1/trainer/grpo_trainer.py#L495
Args:
log_prob: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
advantages: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
response_mask: `(torch.Tensor)`
shape: (bs, response_length)
return:
pg_loss: `a scalar torch.Tensor`
policy gradient loss computed via GPG
"""
assert config is not None
pg_losses = -log_prob * advantages
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
return pg_loss, {}
@register_policy_loss("clip_cov")
def compute_policy_loss_clip_cov(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for Clip-Cov.
Adapted from
https://github.com/PRIME-RL/Entropy-Mechanism-of-RL/blob/main/verl/trainer/ppo/core_algos.py
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
cliprange (float, optional):
Clipping parameter ε for standard PPO. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347.
Defaults to None (must be provided).
cliprange_low (float, optional):
Lower clip range for dual-clip PPO. Defaults to same as `cliprange`.
cliprange_high (float, optional):
Upper clip range for dual-clip PPO. Defaults to same as `cliprange`.
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
clip_cvo_ratio (float, optional):
Ratio for clipping the covariance. Defaults to 0.0002.
clip_cov_lb (float, optional):
Lower bound for clipping covariance. Defaults to 1.0.
clip_cov_ub (float, optional):
Upper bound for clipping covariance. Defaults to 5.0.
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig), "passing AlgoConfig not supported yet"
assert config.policy_loss is not None
clip_cov_ratio = config.policy_loss.clip_cov_ratio if config.policy_loss.clip_cov_ratio is not None else 0.0002
cliprange = config.clip_ratio
cliprange_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else cliprange
cliprange_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else cliprange
clip_cov_ub = config.policy_loss.clip_cov_ub if config.policy_loss.clip_cov_ub is not None else 5.0
clip_cov_lb = config.policy_loss.clip_cov_lb if config.policy_loss.clip_cov_lb is not None else 1.0
assert clip_cov_ratio > 0, "clip_ratio should be larger than 0."
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
pg_losses1 = -advantages * ratio
if cliprange_low is None:
cliprange_low = cliprange
if cliprange_high is None:
cliprange_high = cliprange
corr = torch.ones_like(advantages)
pg_losses2 = -advantages * torch.clamp(ratio, 1 - cliprange_low, 1 + cliprange_high)
clip_by_origin = (pg_losses2 > pg_losses1) & (response_mask > 0)
cov_all = (advantages - verl_F.masked_mean(advantages, response_mask)) * (
log_prob - verl_F.masked_mean(log_prob.detach(), response_mask)
)
cov_all[response_mask == 0] = -torch.inf
cov_all[clip_by_origin] = -torch.inf
clip_num = max(int(clip_cov_ratio * response_mask.sum().item()), 1)
top_k_idx = (cov_all < clip_cov_ub) & (cov_all > clip_cov_lb) & (response_mask > 0)
top_k_idx = torch.nonzero(top_k_idx)
if len(top_k_idx) > 0:
perm = torch.randperm(len(top_k_idx))
top_k_idx = top_k_idx[perm[: min(clip_num, len(top_k_idx))]]
else:
top_k_idx = torch.empty((0, 2), device=cov_all.device, dtype=torch.long)
corr[top_k_idx[:, 0], top_k_idx[:, 1]] = 0
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean((corr == 0).float(), response_mask)
pg_losses = torch.maximum(pg_losses1, pg_losses2) * corr
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("kl_cov")
def compute_policy_loss_kl_cov(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for Clip-Cov.
Adapted from
https://github.com/PRIME-RL/Entropy-Mechanism-of-RL/blob/main/verl/trainer/ppo/core_algos.py
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
kl_cov_ratio (float, optional):
Ratio for selecting the top-k covariance values. Defaults to 0.0002.
ppo_kl_coef (float, optional):
Coefficient for the KL penalty term in the loss. Defaults to 1.
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig), "passing AlgoConfig not supported yet"
assert config.policy_loss is not None
kl_cov_ratio = config.policy_loss.kl_cov_ratio if config.policy_loss.kl_cov_ratio is not None else 0.0002
ppo_kl_coef = config.policy_loss.ppo_kl_coef if config.policy_loss.ppo_kl_coef is not None else 1.0
assert kl_cov_ratio > 0, "kl_cov_ratio should be larger than 0."
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
abs_kl = negative_approx_kl.abs()
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl_abs = verl_F.masked_mean(negative_approx_kl.abs(), response_mask)
pg_losses1 = -advantages * ratio
pg_losses_kl = -advantages * ratio + ppo_kl_coef * abs_kl
pg_losses = pg_losses1
all_valid = response_mask > 0
all_valid_idx = torch.nonzero(all_valid.reshape(-1), as_tuple=True)[0]
all_valid_adv = advantages[all_valid].detach().reshape(-1).cpu()
all_valid_logp = log_prob[all_valid].detach().reshape(-1).cpu()
k = min(kl_cov_ratio, len(all_valid_adv))
if k != 0:
cov_lst_all = (all_valid_adv - all_valid_adv.mean()) * (all_valid_logp - all_valid_logp.mean())
k_percent_nums = max(1, int(len(cov_lst_all) * kl_cov_ratio))
large_cov_idxs = torch.topk(cov_lst_all, k_percent_nums, largest=True).indices
if len(large_cov_idxs) != 0:
large_cov_idxs = all_valid_idx[large_cov_idxs]
pg_losses[large_cov_idxs // advantages.shape[1], large_cov_idxs % advantages.shape[1]] = pg_losses_kl[
large_cov_idxs // advantages.shape[1], large_cov_idxs % advantages.shape[1]
]
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl_abs.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("geo_mean")
def compute_policy_loss_geo_mean(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for GMPO.
Adapted from paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20673
https://github.com/callsys/GMPO/blob/main/train_zero_math_gmpo.py
Args:
old_log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the old policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
log_prob (torch.Tensor):
Log-probabilities of actions under the current policy, shape (batch_size, response_length).
advantages (torch.Tensor):
Advantage estimates for each action, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the loss, shape (batch_size, response_length).
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
not used
"""
assert config is not None
assert not isinstance(config, AlgoConfig)
clip_ratio = config.clip_ratio # Clipping parameter. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347.
clip_ratio_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else clip_ratio
clip_ratio_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else clip_ratio
cliprange = clip_ratio
cliprange_low = clip_ratio_low
cliprange_high = clip_ratio_high
if cliprange_low is None:
cliprange_low = cliprange
if cliprange_high is None:
cliprange_high = cliprange
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp negative_approx_kl for stability (uncomment it if you like)
# negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
# Clipping at token-level & Clipping wider
sgn_advantage = torch.sign(advantages)
negative_approx_kl_clamp = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, -cliprange_low, cliprange_high)
negative_approx_kl_min = torch.min(sgn_advantage * negative_approx_kl, sgn_advantage * negative_approx_kl_clamp)
negative_approx_kl_min = sgn_advantage * negative_approx_kl_min
# Geometric-Mean Policy Optimization
response_mask_sum = response_mask.sum(dim=-1)
ratio = torch.exp((negative_approx_kl_min * response_mask).sum(dim=-1) / (response_mask_sum + 1e-8))
# we only support sequence level advantage for now,
# otherwise, below would be not consistent with the paper
advantage = (advantages * response_mask).sum(dim=-1) / (response_mask_sum + 1e-8)
pg_losses = -advantage * ratio
# Apply rollout correction weights if provided
# For geo_mean, IS weights are 2D (batch_size, seq_length) and need to be aggregated to sequence level
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
# Aggregate token-level weights to sequence level using geometric mean for consistency
# Note: rollout_is_weights is always 2D regardless of aggregation mode
seq_is_weights = torch.exp(
(torch.log(rollout_is_weights + 1e-10) * response_mask).sum(dim=-1) / (response_mask_sum + 1e-8)
)
pg_losses = pg_losses * seq_is_weights
pg_loss = torch.mean(pg_losses)
# higher: ratio is too large that need clamp to clip_high (when adv > 0)
clipped = torch.ne(negative_approx_kl, negative_approx_kl_clamp)
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean((clipped * (advantages > 0)).float(), response_mask)
pg_clipfrac_lower = verl_F.masked_mean((clipped * (advantages < 0)).float(), response_mask)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("cispo")
def compute_policy_loss_cispo(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[DictConfig | ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""
Compute the clipped policy objective and related metrics for CISPO.
See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13585 for more details.
"""
assert config is not None
assert isinstance(config, ActorConfig)
clip_ratio_low = config.clip_ratio_low if config.clip_ratio_low is not None else config.clip_ratio
clip_ratio_high = config.clip_ratio_high if config.clip_ratio_high is not None else config.clip_ratio
# Compute importance sampling ratio: π_θ / π_θ_old
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - old_log_prob
# Clamp for numerical stability
negative_approx_kl = torch.clamp(negative_approx_kl, min=-20.0, max=20.0)
ratio = torch.exp(negative_approx_kl)
ppo_kl = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
# CISPO: Clip the importance sampling weights
# KEY: Apply stop gradient to the clipped ratio
# This prevents gradients from flowing through the ratio computation and clipping
# Gradients only flow through log_prob in the final loss term
clipped_ratio = torch.clamp(ratio, 1 - clip_ratio_low, 1 + clip_ratio_high)
clipped_ratio_sg = clipped_ratio.detach()
# CISPO objective function (to maximize): J = sg(clip(ratio)) * A * log π_θ
# Loss function (to minimize): L = -J = -sg(clip(ratio)) * A * log_prob
pg_losses = -clipped_ratio_sg * advantages * log_prob
# Track clipping statistics
pg_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean((ratio != clipped_ratio).float(), response_mask)
# Apply rollout importance sampling weights if provided
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
pg_losses = pg_losses * rollout_is_weights
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode, **config.global_batch_info
)
# For compatibility, return zero for pg_clipfrac_lower (not used in CISPO)
pg_clipfrac_lower = torch.tensor(0.0, device=pg_loss.device)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/pg_clipfrac": pg_clipfrac.detach().item(),
"actor/ppo_kl": ppo_kl.detach().item(),
"actor/pg_clipfrac_lower": pg_clipfrac_lower.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
def compute_entropy_loss(logits, response_mask, loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean"):
"""Compute categorical entropy loss (For backward compatibility)
Args:
logits (torch.Tensor): shape is (bs, response_length, vocab_size)
response_mask (torch.Tensor): shape is (bs, response_length)
Returns:
entropy: a scalar torch.Tensor
"""
# compute entropy
token_entropy = verl_F.entropy_from_logits(logits) # (bs, response_len)
entropy_loss = agg_loss(loss_mat=token_entropy, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode)
return entropy_loss
def compute_value_loss(
vpreds: torch.Tensor,
returns: torch.Tensor,
values: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
cliprange_value: float,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
):
"""
Compute the clipped value-function loss for PPO.
Copied from https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/ppo_trainer.py#L1151
Args:
vpreds (torch.FloatTensor):
Predicted values from the value head, shape (batch_size, response_length).
values (torch.FloatTensor):
Old (baseline) values from the value head, shape (batch_size, response_length).
returns (torch.FloatTensor):
Ground-truth returns, shape (batch_size, response_length).
response_mask (torch.Tensor):
Mask indicating which tokens to include in the value loss calculation.
cliprange_value (float):
Clip range for value prediction updates.
loss_agg_mode (str, optional):
Aggregation mode for `agg_loss`. Defaults to "token-mean".
Returns:
vf_loss (torch.FloatTensor):
A scalar tensor containing the aggregated value-function loss.
vf_clipfrac (float):
Fraction of elements where the clipped loss was used.
"""
vpredclipped = verl_F.clip_by_value(vpreds, values - cliprange_value, values + cliprange_value)
vf_losses1 = (vpreds - returns) ** 2
vf_losses2 = (vpredclipped - returns) ** 2
clipped_vf_losses = torch.max(vf_losses1, vf_losses2)
vf_loss = 0.5 * agg_loss(loss_mat=clipped_vf_losses, loss_mask=response_mask, loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode)
vf_clipfrac = verl_F.masked_mean(torch.gt(vf_losses2, vf_losses1).float(), response_mask)
return vf_loss, vf_clipfrac
def kl_penalty(logprob: torch.FloatTensor, ref_logprob: torch.FloatTensor, kl_penalty) -> torch.FloatTensor:
"""Compute KL divergence given logprob and ref_logprob. Optionally using straight through to bind k2 on other
kl penalty compute method for unbiased KL gradient estimation.
See more description in http://joschu.net/blog/kl-approx.html
Args:
logprob:
ref_logprob:
Returns:
kl_estimate
"""
forward_score = kl_penalty_forward(logprob, ref_logprob, kl_penalty)
if not kl_penalty.endswith("+") or kl_penalty in ("mse", "k2"):
return forward_score
"""
The expectation of k1 and k3 estimator is the expected value of KL, but the expected gradient of k1 and k3
estimator is not the expected gradient of KL. On the other hand k2 estimator gives right gradient estimator,
so we use a straight through trick here if the kl_penalty method ends with '+', e.g., k3+.
"""
backward_score = 0.5 * (logprob - ref_logprob).square()
return backward_score - backward_score.detach() + forward_score.detach()
def kl_penalty_forward(logprob: torch.FloatTensor, ref_logprob: torch.FloatTensor, kl_penalty) -> torch.FloatTensor:
"""Compute KL divergence given logprob and ref_logprob.
Copied from https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/ppo_trainer.py#L1104
See more description in http://joschu.net/blog/kl-approx.html
Args:
logprob:
ref_logprob:
Returns:
kl_estimate
"""
if kl_penalty in ("kl", "k1"):
return logprob - ref_logprob
if kl_penalty == "abs":
return (logprob - ref_logprob).abs()
if kl_penalty in ("mse", "k2"):
return 0.5 * (logprob - ref_logprob).square()
# J. Schulman. Approximating kl divergence, 2020.
# # URL http://joschu.net/blog/kl-approx.html.
if kl_penalty in ("low_var_kl", "k3"):
kl = ref_logprob - logprob
# For numerical stability
kl = torch.clamp(kl, min=-20, max=20)
ratio = torch.exp(kl)
kld = (ratio - kl - 1).contiguous()
return torch.clamp(kld, min=-10, max=10)
if kl_penalty == "full":
# so, here logprob and ref_logprob should contain the logits for every token in vocabulary
raise NotImplementedError
raise NotImplementedError
def compute_pf_ppo_reweight_data(
data,
reweight_method: str = "pow",
weight_pow: float = 2.0,
):
"""Reweight the data based on the token_level_scores.
Args:
data: DataProto object, containing batch, non_tensor_batch and meta_info
reweight_method: str, choices: "pow", "max_min", "max_random"
weight_pow: float, the power of the weight
Returns:
"""
@torch.no_grad()
def compute_weights(scores: torch.Tensor, reweight_method: str, weight_pow: float) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Compute importance weights for resampling based on scores.
Args:
scores (torch.Tensor): Tensor of scores to compute weights from.
reweight_method (str): Method for computing weights ('pow', 'max_min', 'max_random').
weight_pow (float): Power exponent for 'pow' method.
Returns:
torch.Tensor: Computed importance weights.
Raises:
ValueError: If reweight_method is not supported.
"""
if reweight_method == "pow":
weights = torch.pow(torch.abs(scores), weight_pow)
elif reweight_method == "max_min":
max_score = torch.max(scores)
min_score = torch.min(scores)
weights = torch.where((scores == max_score) | (scores == min_score), 1.0, 0.0)
elif reweight_method == "max_random":
max_score = torch.max(scores)
weights = torch.where(scores == max_score, 0.4, 0.1)
else:
raise ValueError(f"Unsupported reweight_method: {reweight_method}")
return weights
scores = data.batch["token_level_scores"].sum(dim=-1)
weights = compute_weights(scores, reweight_method, weight_pow)
weights = torch.clamp(weights + 1e-8, min=1e-8)
batch_size = scores.shape[0]
sample_indices = torch.multinomial(weights, batch_size, replacement=True)
resampled_batch = {key: tensor[sample_indices] for key, tensor in data.batch.items()}
sample_indices_np = sample_indices.numpy()
resampled_non_tensor_batch = {}
for key, array in data.non_tensor_batch.items():
if isinstance(array, np.ndarray):
resampled_non_tensor_batch[key] = array[sample_indices_np]
else:
resampled_non_tensor_batch[key] = [array[i] for i in sample_indices_np]
resampled_meta_info = {}
for key, value in data.meta_info.items():
if isinstance(value, list) and len(value) == batch_size:
resampled_meta_info[key] = [value[i] for i in sample_indices_np]
else:
resampled_meta_info[key] = value
from copy import deepcopy
resampled_data = deepcopy(data)
resampled_data.batch = type(data.batch)(resampled_batch)
resampled_data.batch.batch_size = data.batch.batch_size
resampled_data.non_tensor_batch = resampled_non_tensor_batch
resampled_data.meta_info = resampled_meta_info
return resampled_data
def compute_policy_loss_reinforce(
rollout_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "seq-mean-token-sum",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""Compute REINFORCE-style policy gradient loss with optional IS correction.
This function implements policy gradient (REINFORCE) with optional importance
sampling correction for rollout-training policy mismatch.
Mathematical formulation:
Without IS (rollout_is_weights=None):
L = -E[log π(a|s) * A(s,a)]
Gradient: ∇_θ L = -E[∇log π(a|s) * A] (standard REINFORCE)
With IS (rollout_is_weights provided):
L = -E_π_rollout[w * log π(a|s) * A(s,a)]
where w = π_current / π_rollout (truncated IS weight)
Gradient: ∇_θ L = -E[w * ∇log π(a|s) * A] (IS-corrected policy gradient)
Args:
rollout_log_prob: Log probabilities from rollout policy (e.g., vLLM BF16).
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length). Used for KL computation.
log_prob: Log probabilities from current training policy.
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
advantages: Advantage estimates for each token.
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
response_mask: Mask indicating valid tokens (1 for valid, 0 for padding).
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length). Should already include rejection sampling.
loss_agg_mode: Loss aggregation strategy (see agg_loss for details).
config: Actor config (required for global_batch_info).
rollout_is_weights: Pre-computed IS weights (π_current / π_rollout).
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length). None to disable IS correction.
Returns:
Tuple of (loss, metrics):
loss: Scalar policy gradient loss
metrics: Dictionary with "actor/ppo_kl"
Note:
Unlike PPO (compute_policy_loss_vanilla), this function:
- Does NOT use PPO clipping
- Uses log π(a|s) directly (not ratio)
- IS weights are applied as multiplicative factor
"""
assert config is not None, "ActorConfig must be provided for REINFORCE loss"
# Compute pure policy gradient loss with optional IS correction
# Standard REINFORCE: L = -E[log π(a|s) * A]
# With IS: L = -E[w * log π(a|s) * A] where w = π_current / π_rollout
if rollout_is_weights is not None:
# IS-corrected policy gradient: L = -E[stopgrad(w) · log π · A]
pg_losses = -advantages * log_prob * rollout_is_weights
else:
# Standard REINFORCE: L = -E[log π · A]
pg_losses = -advantages * log_prob
# Aggregate loss
pg_loss = agg_loss(
loss_mat=pg_losses,
loss_mask=response_mask,
loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode,
**config.global_batch_info,
)
# Compute KL divergence between current and rollout policy
negative_approx_kl = log_prob - rollout_log_prob
kl_divergence = verl_F.masked_mean(-negative_approx_kl, response_mask)
pg_metrics = {
"actor/ppo_kl": kl_divergence.detach().item(),
}
return pg_loss, pg_metrics
@register_policy_loss("bypass_mode")
def compute_policy_loss_bypass_mode(
old_log_prob: torch.Tensor,
log_prob: torch.Tensor,
advantages: torch.Tensor,
response_mask: torch.Tensor,
loss_agg_mode: str = "token-mean",
config: Optional[ActorConfig] = None,
rollout_is_weights: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, dict[str, Any]]:
"""Bypass mode policy loss supporting both REINFORCE and PPO-clip.
This function is the entry point for bypass mode, where old_log_prob = rollout_log_prob.
It computes IS weights and rejection masks, then dispatches to either REINFORCE or
PPO-clip loss based on the loss_type configuration.
IMPORTANT - Bypass mode semantics:
In bypass mode, the trainer sets old_log_prob = rollout_log_prob.
This means:
- For REINFORCE: We use IS weights w = π_current / π_rollout explicitly
- For PPO-clip: The PPO ratio π_current / π_old = π_current / π_rollout
already incorporates the IS correction through clipping, so we do NOT
apply additional IS weights (would be double-counting)
Loss types:
- "ppo_clip" (default): PPO clipped objective (compute_policy_loss_vanilla)
L = -E[min(r*A, clip(r)*A)] where r = π_current / π_rollout
Note: IS weights are NOT applied (clipping handles the ratio)
- "reinforce": REINFORCE-style policy gradient with IS correction
L = -E[w * log π(a|s) * A] where w = π_current / π_rollout
Args:
old_log_prob: In bypass mode, this is actually rollout_log_prob.
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
log_prob: Current policy log probabilities.
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
advantages: Advantage estimates.
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
response_mask: Valid token mask (1=valid, 0=padding).
Shape: (batch_size, seq_length)
loss_agg_mode: Loss aggregation mode (passed to underlying loss function).
config: Actor config containing rollout_correction settings in policy_loss.
rollout_is_weights: Pre-computed IS weights (ignored, computed internally).
Config options (in config.policy_loss.rollout_correction):
loss_type: "ppo_clip" (default) or "reinforce"
rollout_is: IS aggregation level ("token", "sequence", or None)
rollout_is_threshold: Upper threshold for truncating IS weights (default: 2.0)
rollout_rs: Rejection sampling level (see rollout_corr_helper for supported modes)
rollout_rs_threshold: Threshold specification for rejection sampling
rollout_is_batch_normalize: Whether to normalize IS weights to mean=1.0
Returns:
Tuple of (loss, metrics):
loss: Scalar policy loss
metrics: Dictionary with rollout correction metrics and actor/ppo_kl
"""
from verl.trainer.ppo.rollout_corr_helper import compute_rollout_correction_and_rejection_mask
assert config is not None, "config is required for bypass_mode loss"
# Extract rollout_correction config from policy_loss
rollout_corr_config = config.policy_loss.get("rollout_correction", None) if hasattr(config, "policy_loss") else None
if rollout_corr_config is None:
raise ValueError(
"rollout_correction config not found in policy_loss. "
"When using loss_mode='bypass_mode', ensure rollout_correction config is passed."
)
# Extract parameters
loss_type = rollout_corr_config.get("loss_type", "ppo_clip")
rollout_is = rollout_corr_config.get("rollout_is", None)
rollout_is_threshold = rollout_corr_config.get("rollout_is_threshold", 2.0)
rollout_is_batch_normalize = rollout_corr_config.get("rollout_is_batch_normalize", False)
rollout_rs = rollout_corr_config.get("rollout_rs", None)
rollout_rs_threshold = rollout_corr_config.get("rollout_rs_threshold", None)
# In bypass mode: old_log_prob IS rollout_log_prob
rollout_log_prob = old_log_prob
# Compute IS weights and rejection mask
# Note: For PPO-clip, we still compute IS weights for metrics, but don't apply them
with torch.no_grad():
rollout_is_weights_proto, modified_response_mask, rollout_metrics = (
compute_rollout_correction_and_rejection_mask(
old_log_prob=log_prob, # Current policy (for IS ratio: π_current / π_rollout)
rollout_log_prob=rollout_log_prob, # Rollout policy
response_mask=response_mask,
rollout_is=rollout_is,
rollout_is_threshold=rollout_is_threshold,
rollout_is_batch_normalize=rollout_is_batch_normalize,
rollout_rs=rollout_rs,
rollout_rs_threshold=rollout_rs_threshold,
)
)
# Extract IS weights tensor (or None if disabled)
computed_is_weights = rollout_is_weights_proto.batch["rollout_is_weights"] if rollout_is_weights_proto else None
# Apply rejection mask (RS + veto)
effective_mask = modified_response_mask
# Dispatch to appropriate loss function based on loss_type
if loss_type == "reinforce":
# REINFORCE: Apply IS weights explicitly
pg_loss, pg_metrics = compute_policy_loss_reinforce(
rollout_log_prob=rollout_log_prob,
log_prob=log_prob,
advantages=advantages,
response_mask=effective_mask,
loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode,
config=config,
rollout_is_weights=computed_is_weights,
)
elif loss_type == "ppo_clip":
# PPO-clip: The ratio π_current/π_old = π_current/π_rollout already handles IS
# DO NOT apply IS weights - would be double-counting!
# The clipping mechanism constrains the effective IS ratio
pg_loss, pg_metrics = compute_policy_loss_vanilla( # type: ignore[call-arg]
old_log_prob=rollout_log_prob, # = old_log_prob in bypass mode
log_prob=log_prob,
advantages=advantages,
response_mask=effective_mask,
loss_agg_mode=loss_agg_mode,
config=config,
rollout_is_weights=None, # Explicitly None - no IS weights for PPO-clip
)
else:
raise ValueError(f"Invalid loss_type: {loss_type}. Must be 'reinforce' or 'ppo_clip'.")
# Merge rollout correction metrics
pg_metrics.update(rollout_metrics)
return pg_loss, pg_metrics