arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-08
When Implausible Tokens Get Reinforced: Tail-Aware Credit Calibration for LLM Reinforcement Learning
Xiuyi Lou, Zicheng Xu, Yu-Neng Chuang, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Zhaozhuo Xu, Guanchu Wang, et al.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, widely used critic-free RL methods rely on uniform credit assignment, broadcasting the same advantage to all tokens regardless of their di…