arXiv:2506.18203cs.CL2025-06被引 23

用多个弱验证器组合提升语言模型生成质量,不依赖标注数据。

Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap with Weak Verifiers

  • 通过加权集成多个弱验证器,自动估算其准确率并融合输出。
  • 在数学和推理任务中,选首个候选答案的准确率达87.7%,接近o3-mini水平。
  • 无需人工标注,适合资源有限但追求高生成质量的研究与应用。

验证器可通过评分和排序生成响应来提升语言模型能力。当前高质量验证器要么不可扩展(如人类),要么功能受限(如Lean)。尽管语言模型判官和奖励模型已成为通用验证器,但仍与理想验证器(完美准确率)存在显著性能差距。为此,我们提出Weaver框架,通过组合多个弱验证器设计强验证器。研究发现,加权集成(需标注数据训练)显著优于无权组合,因各验证器准确率不同。为减少对标注数据依赖,Weaver采用弱监督估计各验证器准确率,并将输出合并为统一得分,更真实反映响应质量。然而,直接应用弱监督算法面临输出格式不一致和低质量验证器干扰等问题。Weaver利用数据集统计量归一化输出并过滤特定验证器以应对。我们在测试时重复采样场景下评估了Weaver效果:模型生成多个候选答案后选择最优者。结果表明,Weaver显著优于Pass@1性能——在推理和数学任务中平均达87.7%准确率,使用Llama 3.3 70B Instruct作为生成器,70B或更小的判官与奖励模型作为验证器,相当于o3-mini水平;该提升相当于从GPT-4o到o3-mini的跃升(69.0%→86.7%),而后者需大量微调与后训练。为降低验证器集成的计算开销,我们基于Weaver的联合得分训练了一个400M规模的交叉编码器。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Verifiers can improve language model capabilities by scoring and ranking responses from generated candidates. Currently, high-quality verifiers are either unscalable (e.g., humans) or limited in utility (e.g., tools like Lean). While LM judges and reward models have become broadly useful as general-purpose verifiers, a significant performance gap remains between them and oracle verifiers (verifiers with perfect accuracy). To help close this gap, we introduce Weaver, a framework for designing a strong verifier by combining multiple weak, imperfect verifiers. We find weighted ensembles of verifiers, which typically require learning from labeled data, significantly outperform unweighted combinations due to differences in verifier accuracies. To reduce dependency on labeled data, Weaver leverages weak supervision to estimate each verifier's accuracy and combines outputs into a unified score that better reflects true response quality. However, directly applying weak supervision algorithms poses challenges, including inconsistent verifier output formats and handling low-quality verifiers. Weaver addresses these using dataset statistics to normalize outputs and filter specific verifiers. We study Weaver's effectiveness in test-time repeated sampling, where a model generates multiple candidate responses and selects one. Our evaluations show Weaver significantly improves over Pass@1-performance when selecting the first candidate-across reasoning and math tasks, achieving o3-mini-level accuracy with Llama 3.3 70B Instruct as generator, and an ensemble of 70B or smaller judge and reward models as verifiers (87.7% average). This gain mirrors the jump between GPT-4o and o3-mini (69.0% vs. 86.7%), which required extensive finetuning and post-training. To reduce computational costs of verifier ensembles, we train a 400M cross-encoder using Weaver's combined output scores.

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