Clip-Low Increases Entropy and Clip-High Decreases Entropy in Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.26114 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-09-30

Updated: 2026-10-22

Terminology

• RLVR — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entropy Collapse — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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