arXiv:2506.14758cs.CL2025-06AAAI被引 300

用熵信号引导大模型深度推理,突破性能瓶颈。

Reasoning with Exploration: An Entropy Perspective

  • 在优势函数中加入熵项,鼓励更长更深的推理链。
  • 在Pass@K指标上显著提升,尤其在超大K值下仍有效。
  • 适合需要深度逻辑推理的复杂任务场景。

强化学习中平衡探索与利用是核心目标。尽管大语言模型(LLM)推理能力不断提升,但多数方法偏向利用,逐渐遭遇性能瓶颈。本文重新审视强化学习中的熵信号,分析其与LLM探索性推理的关系。实证发现,高熵区域与三类探索性推理行为正相关:(1) 决定或连接逻辑步骤的关键标记;(2) 自我验证与修正等反思行为;(3) 基础模型未充分探索的稀有行为。受此启发,我们提出仅需一行代码的最小修改:在标准RL的优势函数中加入基于熵的项。不同于传统最大熵方法通过增加不确定性来促进探索,本方法通过鼓励更长、更深的推理链来实现探索。实验表明,该方法在Pass@K(LLM推理能力的上界估计指标)上取得显著提升,即使在极大K值下依然有效,推动了大语言模型推理能力的边界。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Balancing exploration and exploitation is a central goal in reinforcement learning (RL). Despite recent advances in enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning, most methods lean toward exploitation, and increasingly encounter performance plateaus. In this work, we revisit entropy -- a signal of exploration in RL -- and examine its relationship to exploratory reasoning in LLMs. Through empirical analysis, we uncover positive correlations between high-entropy regions and three types of exploratory reasoning actions: (1) pivotal tokens that determine or connect logical steps, (2) reflective actions such as self-verification and correction, and (3) rare behaviors under-explored by the base LLMs. Motivated by this, we introduce a minimal modification to standard RL with only one line of code: augmenting the advantage function with an entropy-based term. Unlike traditional maximum-entropy methods which encourage exploration by promoting uncertainty, we encourage exploration by promoting longer and deeper reasoning chains. Notably, our method achieves significant gains on the Pass@K metric -- an upper-bound estimator of LLM reasoning capabilities -- even when evaluated with extremely large K values, pushing the boundaries of LLM reasoning.

强化学习大模型推理熵驱动探索-利用

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