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Long-Horizon Language Model Reinforcement Learning via Progressive Point Matching

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Current paradigms for training language models via reinforcement learning rely heavily on sparse outcome rewards. However, as we pursue tasks that require longer and more complicated trajectories, such strategies result in slow learning. Prior work has attempted to address this problem by rewarding partial progress; however, naive formulations are often biased and converge to suboptimal policies. We show that a simple and unbiased dense reward formulation, which we term progressive point matching, scales exponentially more efficiently to long-horizon tasks by rewarding partial progress on a se

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