The VAPO framework has shown empirical success in improving efficiency and reliability of reinforcement learning for long CoT reasoning tasks with LLMs.
VAPO addresses challenges like value model bias, varying sequence lengths, and sparse reward signals, leading to state-of-the-art performance.
While VAPO has practical benefits, understanding its theoretical foundations and limitations is crucial for future advancements.
This paper explores VAPO theoretically, identifying areas for further investigation to enhance reasoning agents' robustness and generality.