Best Practice Critic Optimization

arXiv:2608.23566 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/QPHutu/golden_critic

Project page: https://iclr-blog-track.github.io/2022/03

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Best Practice Critic Optimization — 17× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning — 13× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• GRPO — 7× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Proximal Policy Optimization — 3× in this paper
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Divergence Proximal Policy Optimization — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

Sources

• An Introduction to Centralized Training for Decentralized Execution in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
• Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
• Defeating the Training-Inference Mismatch via FP16
• Rethinking the Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning
• High-Dimensional Continuous Control Using Generalized Advantage Estimation
• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• What's Behind PPO's Collapse in Long-CoT? Value Optimization Holds the Secret
• VAPO: Efficient and Reliable Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning Tasks

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