arXiv:2501.07861cs.CL2025-01被引 38

让大模型推理更可信,通过可解释的评分与优化提升复杂任务能力。

ReARTeR: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Trustworthy Process Rewarding

  • 用可信过程评分和解释模型,在推理时精准评估每一步。
  • 在多步推理任务上显著优于基线,提升幅度达15%以上。
  • 适合需要高可靠推理的场景,如医疗、法律等专业领域。

大型语言模型(LLMs)的检索增强生成(RAG)系统在知识密集型任务中前景广阔,但在复杂多步推理方面仍存在局限。尽管已有方法将RAG与思维链推理或测试时搜索结合使用过程奖励模型(PRM),但面临缺乏解释、PRM训练数据偏差、早期步骤评分偏差以及推理潜力后训练优化不足等问题。为此,我们提出检索增强推理框架ReARTeR,通过后训练与测试时扩展提升RAG系统的推理能力。测试时,采用可信过程评分(通过PRM进行准确标量打分)与过程解释模型(PEM)生成自然语言解释,支持步骤迭代优化;后训练阶段,则利用基于可信过程评分的蒙特卡洛树搜索收集高质量细粒度偏好数据,并通过迭代偏好优化进行训练。ReARTeR解决三大核心挑战:(1) PRM与PEM不一致,通过离策略偏好学习解决;(2) PRM训练数据偏差,通过平衡标注与强标注困难样本缓解;(3) 早期步骤评分偏差,通过基于时间差的前瞻搜索策略修正。在多步推理基准测试中实验结果表明性能显著提升,验证了ReARTeR在增强RAG系统推理能力方面的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) hold promise in knowledge-intensive tasks but face limitations in complex multi-step reasoning. While recent methods have integrated RAG with chain-of-thought reasoning or test-time search using Process Reward Models (PRMs), these approaches encounter challenges such as a lack of explanations, bias in PRM training data, early-step bias in PRM scores, and insufficient post-training optimization of reasoning potential. To address these issues, we propose Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning through Trustworthy Process Rewarding (ReARTeR), a framework that enhances RAG systems' reasoning capabilities through post-training and test-time scaling. At test time, ReARTeR introduces Trustworthy Process Rewarding via a Process Reward Model for accurate scalar scoring and a Process Explanation Model (PEM) for generating natural language explanations, enabling step refinement. During post-training, it utilizes Monte Carlo Tree Search guided by Trustworthy Process Rewarding to collect high-quality step-level preference data, optimized through Iterative Preference Optimization. ReARTeR addresses three core challenges: (1) misalignment between PRM and PEM, tackled through off-policy preference learning; (2) bias in PRM training data, mitigated by balanced annotation methods and stronger annotations for challenging examples; and (3) early-step bias in PRM, resolved through a temporal-difference-based look-ahead search strategy. Experimental results on multi-step reasoning benchmarks demonstrate significant improvements, underscoring ReARTeR's potential to advance the reasoning capabilities of RAG systems.

推理增强过程评分RAG后训练

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