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Apple study explores GRPO for multilingual LLM reasoning

Researchers from Apple Inc. and the Hasso Plattner Institute have conducted a large-scale study on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in non-English and multilingual settings. Their findings indicate that training LLMs to reason in their native languages results in performance close to English-based reasoning, with significant cross-lingual transfer observed. However, the study also highlights that these trends are highly dependent on the specific model and language, and that training in one language can sometimes lead to regressions in others, necessitating broad evaluation. AI

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Apple Machine Learning Research TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    GRPO Beyond English: A Large-Scale Study of GRPO in Non-English and Multilingual Settings

    Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), often optimized with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has become a central recipe for improving the reasoning capabilities of pretrained language models but current studies remain heavily English-centric. We conduct…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Konstantin Dobler, Federico Scozzafava, Jonathan Janke, Mohamed Ali, Simon Lehnerer ·

    GRPO Beyond English: A Large-Scale Study of GRPO in Non-English and Multilingual Settings

    arXiv:2608.13698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), often optimized with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has become a central recipe for improving the reasoning capabilities of pretrained language models but current st…