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GRPO-RM: Fine-Tuning Representation Models via GRPO-Driven Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning 2025-11-20 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

The Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reinforcement learning method used to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), has proved its effectiveness in practical applications such as DeepSeek-R1. It raises a question whether GRPO can be generalized to representation learning models. In this paper, we propose Group Relative Policy Optimization for Representation Model (GRPO-RM), and investigate the performance of GRPO-like policy in post-training representation models. Specifically, our method establishes a predefined output set to functionally replace token sequence sampling in LLMs, thereby generating an output group, which is essential for the probability-driven optimization of GRPO. In addition, a specialized reward function is designed to accommodate the properties of representation models. Extensive experiments are conducted on various real-world datasets to validate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15256,
  title  = {GRPO-RM: Fine-Tuning Representation Models via GRPO-Driven Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Yanchen Xu and Ziheng Jiao and Hongyuan Zhang and Xuelong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15256},
  year   = {2025}
}
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