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Score Centering proposed to counter drift from trainer–sampler mismatch in RL
A user argues that trainer–sampler mismatch creates a drift term that can destabilize reinforcement-learning training.
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In notes on Score Centering, a user says trainer–sampler mismatch stops a term from canceling as it does in on-policy reinforcement learning. They argue the resulting drift amounts to distillation toward a moving rollout model, making training unstable. Their proposed correction subtracts the cross-entropy gradient drift term, and they think Score Centering could become part of the standard RL recipe.
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