Definition. DAPO clip-higher [yu2025dapo, Section 3.1] [ftip-004H]
Definition. DAPO clip-higher [yu2025dapo, Section 3.1] [ftip-004H]
Clip-higher replaces the symmetric upper and lower PPO clipping widths by separate constants. It permits a larger upward likelihood-ratio movement for tokens with positive advantage while retaining a smaller lower-side interval.
The change alters which sampled terms are saturated by the surrogate. It does not impose a policy-wide trust region or guarantee preservation of low-probability actions.