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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 21, 2026
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Group-relative reinforcement learning compares rollouts of the same prompt, but independent environment noise can obscure these comparisons. We study paired rollouts, which share an event-keyed noise schedule within each group while preserving each rollout's marginal distribution. Pairing removes the between-schedule component of reward-contrast variance, but need not reduce gradient variance. For one-sided grader noise, we derive an exact condition for reduction and give a counterexample in which reward contrasts improve while gradient variance increases. A controlled study trains a 2B tool-use agent under tool faults and grader flips, with three seeds per design. The protocol was registered with a disclosed, previously completed pilot. Under tool faults, pairing improves final noisy-test success by +5.1 percentage points on average, with all three seed differences positive, but misses the registered learning-curve criterion. The criterion is also missed under grader flips: the validation-AUC difference is +0.003 (95% interval [-0.029, +0.033]). A gradient probe on eight distinct checkpoints from two fault-trained trajectories finds lower mean-centered covariance traces under both noise types: 21 to 30% for grader flips and 40 to 63% for tool faults. These finite-sample measurements support the variance mechanism without establishing a general learning-speed benefit. The results distinguish improving reward comparisons, reducing estimator variance, and improving learning.