diff --git a/docs/source/grpo_trainer.md b/docs/source/grpo_trainer.md
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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ $$
 \mathcal{L}_{\text{GRPO}}(\theta) = - \frac{1}{\sum_{i=1}^G |o_i|} \sum_{i=1}^G \sum_{t=1}^{|o_i|} \left[ \min \left( \frac{\pi_\theta(o_{i,t} \mid q, o_{i,< t})}{\pi_{\theta_{\text{old}}}(o_{i,t} \mid q, o_{i,< t})} \hat{A}_{i,t}, \, \text{clip}\left( \frac{\pi_\theta(o_{i,t} \mid q, o_{i,< t})}{\pi_{\theta_{\text{old}}}(o_{i,t} \mid q, o_{i,< t})}, 1 - \epsilon, 1 + \epsilon \right) \hat{A}_{i,t} \right) - \beta \mathbb{D}_{\text{KL}}\left[\pi_\theta \| \pi_{\text{ref}}\right] \right],
 $$
 
-where  \\(\text{clip}(\cdot, 1 - \epsilon, 1 + \epsilon) \\) ensures that updates do not deviate excessively from the reference policy by bounding the policy ratio between  \\( 1 - \epsilon \\) and  \\( 1 + \epsilon \\).
+where  \\(\text{clip}(\cdot, 1 - \epsilon, 1 + \epsilon) \\) ensures that updates do not deviate excessively from the old policy  \\( \pi_{\theta_{\text{old}}} \\) by bounding the policy ratio between  \\( 1 - \epsilon \\) and  \\( 1 + \epsilon \\).
 When  \\( \mu = 1 \\) (default in TRL), the clipped surrogate objective simplifies to the original objective.
 
 #### Loss Types