Walk through GRPO's implementation: group sampling, advantage normalization, and the failure modes you watch for.
GRPO drops the value model and estimates advantage from a group of samples per prompt. The signal is the exact mechanics, why the group baseline works, and the normalization traps that silently bias training.
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GRPO drops the value model and estimates advantage from a group of samples per prompt. The signal is the exact mechanics, why the group baseline works, and the normalization traps that silently bias training.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
