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Train What You Deploy:Token-Faithful Post-Training of a Production Coding

arXiv 2609.04678 ↗First posted 4 Sep 2026cs.AIcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Existing post-training pipelines for coding and terminal agents suffer severe token and control fidelity errors: simplified training environments mismatch production deployments, and offline token reconstruction from agent logs distorts original prompts and conflates policy calls with background model operations. We present a fidelity-aware training coupling framework that retains trainer-side sampling over original prompts, eliminates spurious model calls via a negotiated training protocol, and restricts loss computation to verifiable token spans with closed-failure guarantees. We further propose Certified Divergence Proximal Policy Optimization (C-DPPO), which establishes tight two-sided TV certification bounds, adaptive-K rules, budget-aware sequence guarantees, and error-robust policy masking atop standard DPPO. Evaluated on matched Baize5B and Baize10B models with identical training and test protocols on TMax-100, C-DPPO yields a consistent +3.0-point performance gain over standard DPPO across model scales. Certificate audits validate the reliability and full operational coverage of our certified training pipeline.

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