揭露大模型推理评估的漏洞,提出可复现的标准化测试框架
A Sober Look at Progress in Language Model Reasoning: Pitfalls and Paths to Reproducibility
- 构建标准化评估流程,明确提示格式、解码参数等关键配置
- 实测发现多数强化学习方法提升有限,小数据集上易过拟合
- 推荐监督微调方案,适合追求稳定可靠结果的研究者
语言模型推理能力迅速发展,但评估方法常缺乏透明度与统计严谨性。本文通过系统实证研究发现,当前数学推理基准对解码参数、随机种子、提示格式乃至软硬件配置极为敏感。近期研究宣称的性能提升往往源于未报告的变量差异或模糊比较。为此,我们提出标准化评估框架,包含明确的最佳实践与报告规范。基于该框架重评现有方法,发现多数强化学习策略仅带来微弱改进,且在小规模基准AIME'24上易过拟合;而监督微调方法在所考察场景中表现出更强泛化能力。为推动可复现性,我们公开所有代码、提示和模型输出,为后续研究建立更坚实的基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reasoning has emerged as the next major frontier for language models (LMs), with rapid advances from both academic and industrial labs. However, this progress often outpaces methodological rigor, with many evaluations relying on benchmarking practices that lack transparency, robustness, or statistical grounding. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study and find that current mathematical reasoning benchmarks are highly sensitive to subtle implementation choices--including decoding parameters, random seeds, prompt formatting, and even hardware and software configurations. Performance gains reported in recent studies frequently hinge on unclear comparisons or unreported sources of variance. To address these issues, we propose a standardized evaluation framework with clearly defined best practices and reporting standards. Using this framework, we reassess recent methods and find that most reinforcement learning (RL) approaches yield only modest improvements--far below prior claims--and are prone to overfitting, especially on small-scale benchmarks like AIME'24. In contrast, supervised finetuning (SFT) methods show consistently stronger generalization in the settings we study. To foster reproducibility, we release all code, prompts, and model outputs, for reasoning benchmarks, establishing more rigorous foundations for future work.
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