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DRIFT: Decoupled Rollouts and Importance-Weighted Fine-Tuning for Efficient Multi-Turn Optimization

DRIFT is a training framework that bridges online RL and offline SFT for multi-turn LLM optimization by exploiting the theoretical equivalence between KL-regularized RL and importance-weighted supervised learning. It decouples rollout generation from policy optimization: trajectories are sampled from a fixed reference policy offline, weighted by return-based importance scores, and used for weighted SFT. Empirically, DRIFT matches or exceeds multi-turn RL baselines while retaining the efficiency and simplicity of standard supervised fine-tuning. Code is publicly released.