Group Orthogonalized Policy Optimization:Group Policy Optimization as Orthogonal Projection in Hilbert Space
arXiv:2602.21269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Group Orthogonalized Policy Optimization (GOPO), a new alignment algorithm for large language models derived from the geometry of Hilbert function spaces. Instead of optimizing on the probability simplex and inheriting the exponential curvature of Kullback-Leibler divergence, GOPO lifts alignment into the Hilbert space L2(pi_k) of square-integrable functions with respect to the reference policy. Within this space, the simplex constraint reduces to a linear orthogonality condition = 0, defining a codimension-one subspace […]