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Michael M. Jerge

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Preprint Aug 2026

Perturb the Thought, Not the Pixels: Latent-Space Rollout Diversification for Reinforcement Learning of Vision-Language Models

Noise-Contrastive GRPO is introduced, which injects scale-calibrated Gaussian noise into the last hidden layer of the prompt-encoding pass for half of each rollout group, branching those rollouts from a displaced departure state and integrates into a standard RLVR pipeline as a ~50-line change to the inference engine.

Michael M. Jerge, Joseph Pelczar, J. Downes · 1 citation

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