Beyond GRPO and On-Policy Distillation: An Empirical Sparse-to-Dense Reward Principle for Language-Model Post-Training

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@article{yuanda2026,
  title = {Beyond GRPO and On-Policy Distillation: An Empirical Sparse-to-Dense Reward Principle for Language-Model Post-Training},
  author = {Xu, Yuanda and Sang, Hejian and Zhou, Zhengze and He, Ran and Wang, Zhipeng and Geramifard, Alborz},
  journal = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026},
  year = {2026},
  month = {Jan},
  doi = {10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.639},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.639},
}