DIVA-GRPO: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning through Difficulty-Adaptive Variant Advantage
Reinforcement learning (RL) with group relative policy optimization (GRPO) has become a widely adopted approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While GRPO enables long-chain reasoning without a critic, it often suffers from sparse rewards on difficult problems and advantage vanishing when group-level rewards are too consistent for overly easy or hard problems. Existing solutions (sample expansion, selective utilization, and indirect reward design) often fail to maintain enough variance in within-group reward distributions to yield clear optimization signals. To address this, we propose DIVA-GRPO, a difficulty-adaptive variant advantage method that adjusts variant difficulty distributions from a global perspective. DIVA-GRPO dynamically assesses problem difficulty, samples variants with appropriate difficulty levels, and calculates advantages across local and global groups using difficulty-weighted and normalized scaling. This alleviates reward sparsity and advantage vanishing while improving training stability. Extensive experiments on six reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that DIVA-GRPO outperforms existing approaches in training efficiency and reasoning performance. Code: https://github.com/Siaaaaaa1/DIVA-GRPO
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