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One-shot Entropy Minimization

Computation and Language 2025-08-22 v4

Abstract

We trained 13,440 large language models and found that entropy minimization requires only a single unlabeled data and 10 steps optimization to achieve performance improvements comparable to or even greater than those obtained using thousands of data and carefully designed rewards in rule-based reinforcement learning. This striking result may prompt a rethinking of post-training paradigms for large language models. Our code is avaliable at https://github.com/zitian-gao/one-shot-em.

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@article{arxiv.2505.20282,
  title  = {One-shot Entropy Minimization},
  author = {Zitian Gao and Lynx Chen and Haoming Luo and Joey Zhou and Bryan Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20282},
  year   = {2025}
}

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