arxivcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-15
GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models
Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) offer a promising alternative to reward-maximizing reinforcement learning (RL) for large reasoning models, encouraging diverse reasoning paths by matching reward distributions rather than collapsing to dominant modes. Recent work shows promise…