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GIPO: Gaussian Importance Sampling Policy Optimization

2026-03-04 · Chengxuan Lu, Zhenquan Zhang, Shukuan Wang, Qunzhi Lin, Baigui Sun, Yang Liu arxiv

Post-training with reinforcement learning (RL) has recently shown strong promise for advancing multimodal agents beyond supervised imitation. However, RL remains limited by poor data efficiency, particularly in settings where interaction data are scarce and quickly become outdated. To address this challenge, GIPO (Gaussian Importance sampling Policy Optimization) is proposed as a policy optimization objective based on truncated importance sampling, replacing hard clipping with a log-ratio-based Gaussian trust weight to softly damp extreme importance ratios while maintaining non-zero gradients. Theoretical analysis shows that GIPO introduces an implicit, tunable constraint on the update magnitude, while concentration bounds guarantee robustness and stability under finite-sample estimation. Experimental results show that GIPO achieves state-of-the-art performance among clipping-based baselines across a wide range of replay buffer sizes, from near on-policy to highly stale data, while exhibiting superior bias--variance trade-off, high training stability and improved sample efficiency. Code is available at https://github.com/distanceLu/GIPO.

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