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Long Chain-of-Thought Compression via Fine-Grained Group Policy Optimization

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  • FGO effectively mitigates entropy collapse and preserves sufficient exploration compared to GRPO

    80% confidence
  • Reasoning ability does not scale linearly with the length of Chain-of-Thought

    80% confidence
  • FGO consistently achieves 100% data utilization rate across experiments

    80% confidence
  • FGO successfully addresses two major limitations of GRPO: inefficient data utilization and entropy collapse

    80% confidence
  • FGO preserves the majority of self-reflection steps and does not lose reasoning capability despite CoT compression

    80% confidence
  • Large Language Models often generate unnecessarily verbose Chain-of-Thought reasoning that increases computational costs and latency without proportional performance gains

    80% confidence
  • Excessively long Chain-of-Thought often leads to performance degradation due to overthinking and redundant double-checking

    80% confidence
  • FGO achieves efficient Chain-of-Thought compression without degrading performance

    80% confidence

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